Raymond Federman
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Double or Nothing
— published 1971 — 6 editions |
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Take it or Leave It
— published 1981 — 3 editions |
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The Voice in the Closet/ La Voix Dans Le Cabinet de Debarras
by Raymond Federman, Theodore Pelton , Gerard Bucher — published 1979 — 3 editions |
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Smiles on Washington Square
— 3 editions |
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Critifiction: Postmodern Essays
— published 1993 — 2 editions |
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To Whom it May Concern
— published 1990 — 3 editions |
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Aunt Rachel's Fur
— published 1998 |
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My Body In Nine Parts: With Three Supplements & Illustrations
— 2 editions |
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Surfiction: Fiction Now and Tomorrow
— published 1975 — 2 editions |
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The Two-Fold Vibration
— published 1982 — 2 editions |
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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
― Raymond Federman, Aunt Rachel's Fur
“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
― Raymond Federman, Aunt Rachel's Fur
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