Raymond Federman

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Raymond Federman (1928–2009) was a French–American novelist and academic, known also for poetry, essays, translations, and criticism. He held positions at the University at Buffalo from 1973 to 1999, when he was appointed Distinguished Emeritus Professor. Federman was a writer in the experimental style, one that sought to deconstruct traditional prose. This type of writing is quite prevalent in his book Double or Nothing, in which the linear narrative of the story has been broken down and restructured so as to be nearly incoherent. Words are also often arranged on pages to resemble images or to suggest repetitious themes.

He was born in Montrouge, France, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1947. He studied at Columbia University and as a graduate at UCLA, where he earned a doctorate in comparative literature on Samuel Beckett. He was also a co-founder of the Fiction Collective, a publishing house dedicated to experimental fiction and its writers.

[edit] Works

• Journey into Chaos: Samuel Beckett's Early Fiction (1965)
• Among the Beasts / Parmi Les Monsters (1967)
• Samuel Beckett, His Works and His Critics: An Essay in Bibliography (1970) (with John Fletcher)
• Double or Nothing (1971)
• The Voice in the Closet (1979)
• Me Too (1975)
• Surfiction: Fiction Now and Tomorrow (1975) (editor)
• Take It Or Leave It (1976)
• The Twofold Vibration (1982)
• To Whom It May Concern (1990)
• Now Then / Nun denn (1992) (poems)
• Critifiction: Postmodern Essays (1993)
• Smiles on Washington Square (1995)
• The Supreme Indecision of the Writer: The 1994 Lectures in Turkey (1995)
• the precipice and other catastrophies / der abgrund und andere katastrophen (1999)
• Loose Shoes (2001)
• Aunt Rachel's Fur (2001)
• The Song of the Sparrow (2002)
• Here and Elsewhere: Poetic Cul de Sac (2003)
• My Body in Nine Parts (2005)
• The Twilight of the Bums (with George Chambers)
• More Loose Shoes and Smelly Socks(2005)
• Return To Manure(2006)
• Chut(2008)

[edit] External links

• Raymond Federman's website
• Raymond Federman's blog
• Raymond Federman's University at Buffalo page
• "Here & Elsewhere" Federman's poem "on Faith and Reason."
• [1] the precipice and other catastrophies / der abgrund und andere katastrophen (Poetry Salzburg, 1999)