A reprinting of the important novel by Raymond Federman.

The twofold vibration

Federman, Raymond

Harvester Press

Infrequent faint pencil markings.Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition.

Journey to Chaos: Samuel Beckett's Early Fiction

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Univ. Of California Pr.

Critifiction: Postmodern Essays (SUNY Series in Postmodern Culture) (Suny Postmodern Culture)

Examines how, beginning in the 1960s up to the present, a new type of fiction was created in America, but also in Europe and Latin America, in response to the cultural, social, and political turmoil of the time. This book examines how, beginning in the 1960s up to the present, a new type of fiction was created in America, but also in Europe and Latin America, in response to the cultural, social, and political turmoil of the time. The author has coined the term “Surfiction” for this New Fiction. Written in an informal, provocative style, by an internationally known practitioner, these essays examine the cultural, social, and political conditions that forced serious writers to reflect (often within the work itself) on the act of writing fiction in the modern world. The entire book can be read as a manifesto for the present and future of the new fiction. This book is the first in the SUNY series in Postmodern Culture, edited by Joseph Natoli.

Critifiction: Postmodern Essays (Suny Postmodern Culture)

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

State University of New York Press

Double or nothing;: A real fictitious discourse

SWALLOW PRESS+

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 

Double or Nothing Novel

Literary

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

Surfiction: Fiction Now and Tomorrow

Swallow Pr

Text: English, French (translation)

Detachment (English and French Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Michel Serres

James, Genevieve

Philosophy

Ohio Univ Pr

Taking its place among postmodern classics, this novel makes a shambles of traditional fiction and conventional modes of writings with effrontery and laughter.

Take It or Leave It

Contemporary

Fc2/Black Ice Books

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 narrator retells, as best as he can, what the young man supposedly told him as they sat under a tree. He recounts how the young man escaped German persecution during World War Two, how he came to America and struggled to survive before joining the "rah rah spitshine" 82nd Airborne Division, and how, because of a "typical Army goof," he must travel in an old beat-up Buick Special from Fort Bragg to Camp Drum to collect the money the Army owes him, before he can set out for "the great journey cross-country" to San Francisco where he will embark for Overseas.Moving freely from past to present (and Vice Versa), and from place to place leap-frogging from digression to digression, Take It or Leave It explores new possibilities of narrative technique. Whie the story of Frenchy is being told, the narrator involves his listeners in digressive arguments about politics, sex, America, literature, laughter, death, and the telling of the story itself. Consequently, as this "exaggerated second-hand tale to be read aloud either standing or sitting" progresses, it also deviates from its course, and eventually cancels itself as the voices of the fiction multiply. Take It or Leave It, the ultimate postmodern novel, makes a shamble of traditional fiction and conventional modes of writing, and does so with effrontery and laughter.

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The twofold vibration

Journey to Chaos: Samuel Beckett's Early Fiction

Critifiction: Postmodern Essays (Suny Postmodern Culture)

Critifiction: Postmodern Essays (SUNY Series in Postmodern Culture) (Suny Postmodern Culture)

Double or nothing;: A real fictitious discourse

Double or Nothing Novel

Surfiction: Fiction Now and Tomorrow

Detachment (English and French Edition)

Take It or Leave It

Take It or Leave It