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Raymond Federman


Born
in Montrouge, France
May 15, 1928

Died
October 06, 2009

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Genre
Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction


Raymond Federman 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.

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Average rating: 3.97 · 869 ratings · 157 reviews · 56 distinct works â€� Similar authors
Double or Nothing
4.06 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 1971 — 14 editions
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Take It or Leave It
3.88 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 1981 — 8 editions
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Smiles on Washington Square
4.05 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 1985 — 12 editions
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The Voice in the Closet
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4.14 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1979 — 12 editions
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To Whom it May Concern
3.93 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1990 — 9 editions
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The Two-Fold Vibration
3.88 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1982 — 8 editions
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Shhh: The Story of a Childhood
3.87 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions
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Critifiction: Postmodern Es...
4.24 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions
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Aunt Rachel's Fur
3.63 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions
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My Body in Nine Parts
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“And so, for me, the only fiction that still means something today is the kind of fiction that tries to explore the possibilities of fiction beyond its own limitations; the kind of fiction that challenges the tradition that governs it; the kind of fiction that constantly renews our faith in man's intelligence and imagination rather than man's distorted view of reality; the kind of fiction that reveals man's playful irrationality rather than his righteous rationality.”
― Raymond Federman
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“You're smiling. But you must know yourself, since you are a literary person, that the work of fiction is always a form of recovery of the past, even if that past has to be falsified to seem real. The act of recalling the past in what we write doesn't mean knowing the way it really was, but rather becoming the master of memories as they burn in the perilous instant of creation.”
― Raymond Federman, Aunt Rachel's Fur
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“Listen carefully because what I'm going to tell you now is very important, so pay attention, you see, one always walks for a reason, when you walk it's because you're going somewhere, to work, to the grocery store to do your shopping, to your girlfriend's house for a quickie, to walk your dog, and even if you're going nowhere, if you don't have a real destination, there's always a reason for walking, to stretch your legs, to exercise, to ponder your future, whereas one dances for nothing, only for the beauty of dancing, for the form, because one can never tell the dancer from the dance, as Yeats put it so well, the walker always walks for a reason, it's the reason that makes him walk, good or bad, useful or useless, doesn't matter, ah but one dances for no reason, that's what you have to understand if you're going to stay and listen to me, I'm not walking here, I'm dancing, get it, I'm doing acrobatics, I don't tell my stories in order to get somewhere, I tell them for the simple pleasure of telling, no more no less, and if you're listening in order to find out what's going to happen at the end, you're wasting your time, you have to listen just for the pleasure of listening to my voice, to the dancing of my voice if you prefer...”
― Raymond Federman, Aunt Rachel's Fur
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Darconville’s Cat -- honorably grandfather'd
 
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Women and Men -- VOTE for this one!
 
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ALL OF THE ABOVE, DAMMIT!
 
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MORE THAN ONE OF THE ABOVE BUT FEWER THAN ALL OF THE ABOVE!
 
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A WRITE=IN ANSWER
 
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Inferno by Dan Brown: I KEEd I KEEd. Levent Şenyürek's Book of Madness. (write-in)
 
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Rising UP and Rising DOWN by Bill
 
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impossible object (write-in)
 
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Raymond Federman -- the clear winner!
 
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The Echo Chamber the echo chamber
 
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NONE OF THE ABOVE! I WANNA BE ENTERTAINED!
 
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SOME OF THE ABOVE!
 
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A FEW OF THE ABOVE!
 
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Finnegans Wake is the only book you'll ever need to vote for.
 
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SEE MY VOTE IN THE THREAD BELOW!!!!!
 
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ARE WE HAVING FUN YET?
 
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A FUTURE member of the BBC :: Ladies and gEntlemen, Lauren Fairbanks and Sister Carrie.
 
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NONE of the above ;; READ'ing BURIED Books is BAD for the econoME.
 
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Edward Dahlberg's Complete Works
 
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The Orgel Hans Henny Jahnn built.
 
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