The Third Solitude (eBook, ePUB)
A Memoir Against History
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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 titl...
- 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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