Raymond Federman

• Sep-2013
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More than eighty riffs, rants, and microfictions by two old bums, er, that is, masters -- perfectly complemented by the avant-comic artistry of T. Motley.Renowned throughout Europe and with books translated into fourteen languages, Raymond Federman i...

• Apr-2010
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Fiction. Jewish Studies. "Shhh, murmured my mother. And the first thirteen years of my life vanished into the darkness of that third floor closet." On a July morning in 1942, Raymond Federman's childhood ended, as his parents and two sisters were arr...

• Apr-2008
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Double or Nothing is a concrete novel in which the words become physical materials on the page. Federman gives each of these pages a shape or structure, most often a diagram or picture. The words move, cluster, jostle, and collide in a tour de force ...

• Mar-2008
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• Oct-2006
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In 1942, after hiding to escape the Nazis, our narrator (named, simply, Federman) finds his way to Vichy France. Unwanted by his relatives, he is forced to spend the remainder of the war as an unpaid laborer. For three wordless years on the farm, th...

• Jan-2005
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Fiction. Jewish studies. For decades, Raymond Federman has been dazzling readers with his unique brand of "surfiction"--throwing zany words all over the page and inserting himself into every fiction, often through such zany alter egos as Moinous and ...

• Apr-2001
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In Aunt Rachel's Fur, Raymond Federman -- French by birth, American by adoption, Jew by memory -- plays with the language of his childhood to construct a story from digressions. Federman's narrative spirals into a temporal abyss as he rummages in old...

• Dec-1999
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• Jun-1997
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As told, or rather retold second-hand, by the narrator, Take It or Leave It relates the hilarious and amorous adventures of a young Frenchman who has been drafted into the U.S. Army and is being shipped Overseas to fight in Korea. The obsessed narrat...

• Feb-1975
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Nineteen critical essays examine the outmodedness of traditional fiction, contemporary experimental fiction in America, France, and Germany, individual innovative authors, and the future of fiction and of literature...