by Russell Banks · Actes Sud · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782742751730
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«Survivants» is the collection of short stories by Russell Banks, published by Actes Sud in paperback (250 pages, in French).
The fourteen stories, written between 1970 and 1974, are set in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, amid snow and ice. They address family conflicts, racial tensions and parent-child relationships, obsessions of the American imagination. Certain texts, minimalist or intimate, show the author's social and political commitment.
Translation from English by Pierre Furlan. Original title: «Searching for Survivors». Published in 2004 in the Babel collection.
For readers interested in Russell Banks's short fiction and his beginnings as a writer.
Russell Earl Banks was an American writer of fiction and poetry. His novels are known for "detailed accounts of domestic strife and the daily struggles of ordinary often-marginalized characters". He drew from his own childhood in the working class, but also from the larger world, such as his years in Jamaica. His novels often reflect "moral themes and personal relationships".
