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Raymond Federman and Samuel Beckett: Voices in the Closet

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This book is about Raymond Federman and his incredible textual obsession with Samuel Beckett. Federman was a scholar of Beckett, postmodern theorist, a self-translator and avant-garde novelist. Born in Paris in 1928, all of his immediate family perished in the Holocaust. Federman escaped thanks to his mother, who hid him in a closet. After the war, he migrated to America and devoted his life to scholarship and creative writing. In both, he devoted his life to Beckett. Federman’s creative and theoretical writings contaminate and pervert each other just as, in his novels, French contaminates English and fiction perverts reality. His work is centered on the details of his survival, enacting a perpetual return to the closet, as previous studies have demonstrated. By examining Beckettian (and by extension Joycean) intertextuality in the novels of Raymond Federman, this study traces the contours of a second closet. 


Request Code : ZLIBIO3155201
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Year:
2021
Publisher:
Anthem Press
Language:
English
Pages:
178
ISBN 10:
1785277952
ISBN 13:
9781785277955
ISBN:
1785277952,9781785277955
Series:
Anthem symploke Studies in Theory

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