# Survive - Paperback

by **Frederika Amalia Finkelstein** (Author), **Isabel Cout** (Translator), **Christopher Elson** (Translator)

**_"I'm under twenty-five and I am unable to envision the future. I'm not the only one."_**

  

**A singular voice of the French "Bataclan Generation"--those most acutely conscious of the terrorist attacks in the mid-2010s--grappling with issues of memory or post-memory, trauma, and survivors' dilemmas.**

  

​_Survive_ ​is concerned with the work of grieving for strangers--a grief which does not begin or end, but is rather a structural part of one's being in the world. For Finkelstein, it is essential "\[t\]o abide. Deep inside what is dying, in the midst of the bullets going astray and the offenses accumulating, in the midst of the misunderstandings imposed on a face other than my own, on a body other than my own...to build a world that thinks, a world that gives, a world that beats--a living world." _Survive_ situates contemporary youth in a violence-saturated present with which they are all too familiar, yet from which many of them feel alienated in a plurality of difficult-to-define ways.

  

Frederika Amalia Finkelstein cuts across national and cultural contexts, from French to Argentinian to North American, touching on the challenge facing her generation: to understand their own lives as uniquely meaningful in the face of unending mass suffering.

  

### Author Biography

**Frederika Amalia Finkelstein** is a French writer and author of two novels: _Forgetting_ and _Surviving_. Upon its 2014 release in France, _Forgetting_ was met with great critical success and has since been translated into multiple languages. Both have been published in English translation by Isabel Cout and Christopher Elson (Deep Vellum).

  

**Isabel Cout** is a translator in Montreal, Quebec. Her research concerns literary works by third generation authors (grandchildren of Holocaust survivors) who write about having ambivalent relationships to the traumatic memory they've inherited.

  

**Christopher Elson** has a background in Philosophy and French Studies and holds a doctorate in Contemporary Literature from Université Paris IV-Sorbonne. He is a member of the Joint Faculty of the University of King's College and Dalhousie University. He is currently editor of _Dalhousie French Studies_ and music columnist for the _Dalhousie Review_. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia with his wife Kate.

**Number of Pages:** 162

**Dimensions:** 0.37 x 8 x 5 IN

**Publication Date:** July 23, 2024

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