Survive

By: Frederika Amalia Finkelstein, Isabel Cout (Translator), Christopher Elson (Translator)

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Paperback | 23 July 2024

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“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.

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"Finkelstein favors the direct approach, a brutality of language and subject in order to confront the reader, sometimes to the point of discomfort, with the facts and often ambivalent feelings that they have provoked, in order to demonstrate their violence." -Le Monde

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