Floriane Zaslavsky
Essayist
My new project is a work of literary non-fiction. It aims to explore the travel narrative realm while distancing itself from the clichés of this well-worn genre. It seeks to overlay the rhythm of travel with that of memory (in the vein of texts by poet Kapka Kassabova, for example). I want this narrative to question how we construct memory, both individual and collective, and the place we give it in our live.
Floriane Zaslavsky is a sociologist, journalist and writer. She shifted from literary studies and political science to sociology while she was studying in Pune. She did her PhD on the Dalit movement which resulted in a book titled “Forcer les portes de l'espace public” (2023) which covers digital technology's impact on political mobilizations and knowledge circulation. In 2020, she co-authored “Dernier brunch avant la fin du monde” with Célia Héron, a modern and humoristic approach to the work of Roland Barthes.
