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Federman, Raymond was born on May 15, 1928 in Paris. Son of Simon and Marguerite (Epstein) Federman.
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This book contains the "collected plays" of postmodern contemporary U.S. author Raymond Federman in a bilingual edition (English and German). Featured are a long drama, "The Precipice," and three shorter "plays" that defy rigid genre boundaries (poem, television play, radio play?). The PRECIPICE: 1. A precipitate or headlong fall or descent, esp. to a great depth. Also fig. Obs. 2. A vertical or very steep face of rock, etc.; a cliff, crag, or steep mountain side of considerable height. ... b. The edge or brink of a cliff. Obs. ... c. fig. A perilous situation; a hazardous position. 3. transf. (?) Precipitousness, loftiness as of a precipice. Obs. 4. Comb., as precipice-edge, -wall; precipice-writing.
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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 arrested by collaborationist French police and sent to their deaths at Auschwitz, with Raymond alone evading capture. In SHHH, his final novel, Federman reconstructs this childhood out of fragments, speculations, and doubtful recollections--the stories of a lost life, enmeshed with a history that can never be forgotten. "Federman is inarguably one of the most significant vanguard writers of the second half of the twentieth century and first years of the twenty-first"--Lance Olsen.
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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 full of puns, parodies, and imitations. Within these startling and playful structures Federman develops two characters and two narratives. These stories are simultaneous and not chronological. The first deals with the narrator and his effort to make the book itself; the second, the story the narrator intends to tell, presents a young man's arrival in America. The narrator obsesses over making his narrative to the point of not making it. All of his choices for the story are made and remade. He tallies his accounts and checks his provisions. His questioning and indecision force the reader into another radical sense of the novel. The young man, whose story is to be told, also emerges from his obsessions. Madly transfixing details—noodles, toilet paper, toothpaste, a first subway ride, a sock full of dollars—become milestones in a discovery of America. These details, combined with Federman's feel for the desperation of his characters, create a book that is simultaneously hilarious and frightening. The concrete play of its language, its use of found materials, give the viewer/reader a sense of constant and strange discovery. To turn these pages is to turn the corners of a world of words as full as any novel of literary discourse ever presented. Double or Nothing challenges the way we read fiction and the way we see words, and in the process, gives us back more of our own world and our real dilemmas than we are used to getting. Picked for American Book Review's 100 Best First Lines from Novels
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Drama. This book contains a long drama, The Precipice, and two shorter plays--Act without Words for the Hand and Who Will Crack First. Renowned experimentalist Raymond Federman was born in France in 1928 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1947. He has published eight novels, four volumes of poetry, four books of criticism, and numerous articles, essays, poems, plays, and stories. His novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages. SPD carries a number of books by Raymond Federman including AUNT RACHEL'S FUR, THE VOICE IN THE CLOSET and MY BODY IN NINE PARTS.
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writer literature and language educator
Federman, Raymond was born on May 15, 1928 in Paris. Son of Simon and Marguerite (Epstein) Federman.
Bachelor, Columbia University, 1957. Master of Arts, University of California at Los Angeles, 1958. Doctor of Philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1963.
Assistant professor University California-Santa Barbara, 1959—1964. Associate professor State University of New York, Buffalo, 1964—1968, professor English & comparative literature, from 1968, Distinguished professor, 1990—1999, Melodia E. Jones professor, 1994—1999. Visiting professor University Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1969—1970, Hebrew University Jerusalem, 1982—1983.
Served with United States Army, 1951-1954, Republic of Korea.
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Served with United States Army, 1951-1954, of Korea. Guggenheim fellow, 1966-1967. Member SamuelBeckett Society (life honorary trustee), Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association American Center, Fiction Collective (company-director 1978-1981), Phi Beta Kappa.
Club: Bernardo Heights Country.
Married Erica Hubscher Federman, September 19, 1960. 1 child Simone Juliette.