Survive

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.