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Raymond Federman (1928–2009)

Autor de Double or Nothing

32+ Obras 483 Miembros 9 Reseñas

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Raymond Federman retired in 1999 as Melodia E. Jones Chair of Literature at SUNY-Buffalo.

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Obras de Raymond Federman

Double or Nothing (1971) 111 copias
Take It or Leave It (1976) 74 copias
The Two-Fold Vibration (1982) 45 copias
The Voice in the Closet (1979) 29 copias
To Whom It May Concern (1990) 26 copias
Aunt Rachel's Fur (2001) 20 copias
Samuel Beckett (1976) — Editor — 18 copias
Surfiction (1975) 12 copias
Return to Manure (2005) 12 copias
The Twilight of the Bums (2008) 7 copias

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Fiction International 22: Pornography & Censorship (1992) — Contribuidor — 16 copias
Mississippi Review: MR45 — Contribuidor — 4 copias
BLACK ICE Number 9: Ice Picks: Original Women (1992) — Contribuidor — 1 copia

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Nombre legal
Federman, Raymond
Fecha de nacimiento
1928-05-15
Fecha de fallecimiento
2009-10-06
Género
male
Nacionalidad
France (birth)
USA (citizen)
Lugar de nacimiento
Montrouge, France
Lugar de fallecimiento
San Diego, California, USA
Lugares de residencia
Buffalo, New York, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA
Berlin, Germany
Paris, France
Israel
Rancho Bernardo, California, USA
Educación
Columbia University (BA)
University of California, Los Angeles
Ocupaciones
poet
playwright
lecturer
literary critic
professor (Creative Writing and Comparative Literature)
translator
Relaciones
Beckett, Samuel (friend)
Organizaciones
Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines
State University of New York, Buffalo
University of California, Santa Barbara
United States Army (Korean War)
Premios y honores
Frances Steloff Fiction Prize (1971 | 1971 | 1985 | 1966 | 1982-83 | 1985 | 1986 | 1989-90)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1977)
Fulbright Fellowship (1982)
National Endowment for the Arts fellowship (1985)
Biografía breve
Raymond Federman was born to a Jewish family in Montrouge, France. His parents were Marguerite (Epstein) and Simon Federman, a painter, and he had two sisters, Jacqueline and Sarah. He was 14 years old in 1942 during World War II when the Nazis arrived at his family's apartment in Paris. His mother pushed him into a small stairway landing closet to hide just before the rest of the family was taken away. He never saw his parents and sisters again: all four were killed in the extermination camp at Auschwitz. Federman hid for the rest of the war on farms in southern France. He emigrated to the USA in 1947 and served in the U.S. Army in Korea and Japan. Afterwards, he studied at Columbia University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1957. He then went to UCLA, where he received an M.A. in 1958 and a Ph.D. in 1963 with a dissertation on Samuel Beckett. Federman wrote in English and French and taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara and at SUNY Buffalo. He was named Distinguished Professor in 1990, and was appointed in 1992 to the Melodia E. Jones Chair of Literature, which he held until retiring in 1999. From 1979 to 1982, he was co-director of the Fiction Collective, a publishing house dedicated to experimental fiction. Federman's writing was experimental and postmodern, featuring unorthodox formats, punctuation, and typography. He coined the term "surfiction" to describe the way his work moved between fiction and nonfiction. He often returned to his early life in autobiographical works with black humor. He was a prolific writer who published 10 novels, five volumes of poetry, four books on Samuel Beckett (who became a friend), three collections of essays, and numerous articles, plays, and translations of French writers. His own works have been translated into many languages. Several books have been written about Federman's work, including Federman From A to X-X-X-X by Larry McCaffery, Thomas Hartl and Doug Rice (1998), and Federman's Fictions: Innovation, Theory, and the Holocaust (2010). His last book was released posthumously in 2010: SHHH: The Story of a Childhood ("Shhh" was what his mother whispered to Federman when she pushed him into the closet).

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well this book took a long time to read. not that it is hard to read, at least in a conventional way. well, this book isn't conventional in a lot of ways. which is probably it's main strength. that and the avoidance of telling his story...not the main one, of course, but the one about his family (x-x-x-x)
 
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weberam2 | Nov 24, 2017 |
Gladly, it is over. I do believe that as time passes I will appreciate more my reading of this most-original book. But for now brand me burned, rightly forgiven, and smoldering on the stake.
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MSarki | Jan 24, 2015 |
http://msarki.tumblr.com/post/76422571840/to-whom-it-may-concern-by-raymond-fede...

Weather, such as this winter of 2014 we are presently engaged in, can flat wear us out. There are times we question how much more we might take. But the weather comes at us like waves do, and with skill and some luck we often survive. But there are times the ferocious weather comes all at once and our ending is inevitable. Those of us who survive these storms make what we can of what is left to us. For a special few it may be what is called a good life, and for the rest of us who basically survive, we live until we die.

The two main characters of this novel have both seen terrible things due to the period during WWII. Their families have been destroyed as well as their homes and every possession. This morning I was reminded on the news that these atrocities are still happening around the world and likely will always continue as long as there are human beings on the planet. There is little mystery behind the fact that we can be an awful animal at times. And it seems the violence never ends. The two main characters of this book who physically survive their personal tragedies do go on to make something of themselves, to better the planet in some way, and to each perhaps raise a couple of kids in a way that might make a difference in the world some day. But these lives, and what they made of them, will never replace for them what has been lost.

There are scant reviews of this book from which to plunder or even get some idea what others might have thought about after reading it. It seems that those who actually did read this book like it, but they never tell us why. Perhaps they cannot express themselves sufficiently or confidently enough to satisfy the ingrates among us. Or perhaps they are not willing to place themselves in jeopardy as others of us are more wont to do. I do not mind people assuming these docile postures as it places me in a position much different than these readers and I feel even more outside and apart from those just grazing along and feeling safe within the confines of the massive herd of those just like themselves.

I felt all along that this book was an exercise for Raymond Federman, and he practiced it at the expense of us all, that is, if he decided to eventually have this title published, which is obvious to me now that he did. But I am not convinced he set out to write this book in the manner in which it was written. I believe the narrator when he says he was just trying things out in order to discover whether or not he could make a novel out of his notes and letters to his friend. Seems he did. And a pretty good one at that.
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MSarki | otra reseña | Jan 24, 2015 |
Not much to say about this book other than I liked it, it was rather easy to read, I do like road trips, and I know you can't go home again.
 
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MSarki | Jan 24, 2015 |

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