Benjamin Libman

The Third Solitude (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir Against History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

• A fresh work of Jewish literary non-fiction exploring personal history, memory, and Jewishness as a Montrealer
• Author grapples with growing up with Zionism and the ideal of Israel being a seemingly inescapable part of his Jewish identity, and his own decision as a liberal Jew to reject reverence of Israel
• Deep preoccupations with memory, time, nostalgia, and ramified traumas that animate them
• With the settings of Mordecai Richler's Montreal, inspired by W. G. Sebald's themes of memory and identity, and with resonances of the writing of Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, and Walter Benjamin
• The title is inspired by the concepts of Hugh MacLennan's landmark novel Two Solitudes, and proposes the Jewish community and immigrants in Montreal/Quebec as a 'third solitude' forced to navigate the two solitudes of the French Catholics and the English Protestants
• Author is a Reinhard Fellow at Stanford University and a recipient of the Bunner Prize for Best Essay on American literature
• Author residence: Paris, hometown: Montreal

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dundurn Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781459753686
• Artikelnr.: 72255856

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Libman is a writer and translator from Montreal whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Yale Review, the London Magazine, the Guardian, and elsewhere. He holds degrees in literature from Columbia University and Stanford University. He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Mellon Foundation fellowship. He divides his time between Paris and Montreal.