Raymond Federman

Raymond Federman ( born May 15, 1928 in Montrouge, France; † October 6, 2009 in San Diego, California ) was a French-American writer and scholar.

Life

Raymond Federman was of Jewish descent and grew up in France. When the French police on behalf of the German occupying forces on July 16th and 17th 1942 in Paris arrested nearly 13,000 Jewish citizens in the large-scale raid, which was known as the " Vélodrome d' Hiver Rafle you ", police forced their way in the apartment one of the Federman family. Federman's mother hid her 14 - year-old son spontaneously in a closet. While Federman's parents and his two sisters were murdered in Auschwitz, survived Raymond Federman. After emigrating to the United States in 1947, he lived there initially as a casual worker and jazz saxophonist. In 1951 he signed up because of the prospect, and you'll receive a full scholarship to study, for military service in the U.S. Army and should be used as a paratrooper in the Korean War. To this end, it did not come, because he stayed with a translator company of the army because of his knowledge of French in Tokyo. In 1953 he became an American citizen and in 1954 he became at Columbia University studying Comparative Literature at. This he graduated in 1958 with a Master of Arts degree and taught in the following years ( 1959-1964 ) at the University of Santa Barbara. In 1963 he received his doctorate at the University of California at Los Angeles ( UCLA) with a dissertation on Samuel Beckett, to whom he was acquainted. From 1964 Federman worked as a lecturer at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Even when he could live later as a freelance writer, he had repeatedly held visiting professorships and lectured at American and European universities.

Raymond Federman died after a long battle with cancer on October 6, 2009.

Work

For Raymond Federman 's survival of the Holocaust was a key impetus for his literary practice. In particular, in his novel La voix dans le cabinet de débarras ( German: The Voice of the cabinet) he themed his " real birth" ( Federman ). But the multitude of his other works revolves around the life theme of guilt and abandonment - why exactly he (and not his sisters ) was hidden from the mother and therefore he survived the Holocaust, but also his lust for life, he on as his answer German fascism knew who wanted to destroy him in the deportation of Jews in 1942 in Paris as his family. Raymond Federman wrote his works (novels, short stories, poems and essays ) in French as in English and translated them occasionally Raymond Federman himself, who learned only with 20 years of English, felt his bilingualism as an asset for his literary work. Although he initially preferred English as a literary language, he wrote as part of his attempts to enter in France as a poet walk and find recognition, some of his texts, first in French and translated some then into English: Amer Eldorado (1974, novel, inspired at Double or Nothing without eng translation ), Amer Eldorado, 2001 (2001, no eng translation ), La Fourrure de ma tante Rachel (1996, novel, English:. .. Aunt Rachel's Fur ), Mon corps en neuf parties (2002, short prose ). On the translation of La Fourrure de ma tante Rachel he spent two years working closely with the translator Patricia private Standley, as he explained in an interview with Alyson Waters 2001. Federman also published bilingual works such as The Voice in the Closet / La voix dans le cabinet de débarras (1979 ), from which a trilingual edition exists in English, French and German, or 99 hand -written poems (2001) with English and French poems. In his poetic bilingualism, it kept his friend Samuel Beckett.

Federman received the 1986 American Book Award for his work Smiles on Washington Square. Immediately his first novel Double or Nothing ( German: Everything or Nothing ) Federman became internationally known. In this work, the author joined concrete poetry and prose. In the 1970s, Federman created the concept of " Surfiction ," which he also presented his poetry lectures in 1990 in Hamburg based. With this concept he referred to literature that addresses the question of constructed or imagined reality. With lyrics that mattered Federman to this genus, he worked from 1993 to over many years in close cooperation with the Aachen Jazz Ensemble ART OF FACT.

Writings

  • Journey into Chaos: Samuel Beckett 's Early Fiction ( 1965)
  • Among the Beasts / Parmi Les Monsters ( 1967)
  • Samuel Beckett, His Works and His Critics: An Essay in Bibliography ( 1970) with John Fletcher
  • Double or Nothing (1971 ), German All or Nothing: A Novel, Nördlingen. Greno, 1986 German by Peter Torberg
  • Amer Eldorado ( 1974)
  • Me Too (1975 )
  • Surfiction: Fiction Now and Tomorrow ( 1975) editor
  • Take It Or Leave It ( 1976), dt Take it or leave it: an exaggerated story second-hand, standing or sitting to read aloud - Frankfurt am Main. Rogner and Bernhard at Zweitausendeins, 1998 German by Peter Torberg
  • The Voice in the Closet / La voix dans le cabinet de débarras (1979 ), bilingual work - self- translation, in Germany published a trilingual edition: The voice in the cabinet, Hamburg: Waiter, 1989 - German by Peter Torberg and Sylvia Morawetz
  • The Twofold Vibration ( 1982), dt The night of the 21st century, or from the life of an old man: Roman, Nördlingen: Greno, 1988, edition: Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1991.
  • To Whom It May Concern: (1990 ), dt Subject: Sarah's cousin Roman, Frankfurt am Main. Suhrkamp, ​​1991 German by Peter Torberg
  • Now Then / Well (1992 ) poems. German by Peter Torberg
  • Critifiction: Postmodern Essays (1993 )
  • Smiles on Washington Square (1995 ), dt A love story or something: Roman, Nördlingen: Greno, 1987 [ 2 Ed ]. - [ Frankfurt (Main )]: Suhrkamp, ​​1995 German by Peter Torberg.
  • The Supreme Indecision of the Writer: The 1994 Lectures in Turkey. (1995)
  • A voice within a voice. Federman translating / Translating Federman (1996 )
  • La Fourrue de ma tante Rachel ( 1996)
  • Loose Shoes ( 2001), Open Shoes: a kind of life history, Berlin: Weidler, 2002.
  • Aunt Rachel's Fur ( 2001), self- translation of La Fourrure de ma tante Rachel, dt The fur of my Aunt Rachel: an improvised novel ... from the French by Thomas Hartl. - 1st edition - Leipzig. Faber and Faber, 1997.
  • Mon corps en neuf parties (2002)
  • The Song of the Sparrow ( 2002)
  • Here and Elsewhere: Poetic Cul de Sac (2003)
  • The Precipice and Other Catastrophes (2003)
  • My Body in Nine Parts (2005), self- translation of Mon corps en neuf parties / Raymond Federman. Photos de Steve Murez. - Berlin: Weidler, 2002.
  • My body into nine parts. From the open plan. English by Peter Torberg. Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2008, ISBN 978-3-88221-706-3.
  • Game Play texts = text / Raymond Federman. From the Amerikan. by Peter Torberg. Photo part: Renate of Mangoldt. Literary Colloquium Berlin; Artists in Berlin Programme of the DAAD. - Berlin: LCB, 1990
  • Surfiction: The Way of literature: poetry lessons Hamburger, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1992 German by Peter Torberg.
  • A version of my life: the early years - Augsburg:. . Maro - Verl, 1993 German by Peter Torberg
  • The Twilight of the Bums with George Chambers, dt bum rap, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1998 German by Peter Torberg.
  • 99 hand -written poems = 99 poèmes faits -à -la -main - Berlin: Weidler, 2001
  • Amer Eldorado 2/ 001: récit exagéré à lire à haute voix assist debout ou couché, Berlin: Weidler, 2001.
  • "On the Road Again. " In: Homo narrans: Texts and Essays in Honor of Jerome Klinkowitz. Edited by Zygmunt Mazur and Richard Utz. Cracow. Jagiellonian University Press, 2004, p.24 - 40th
  • A love story or something. From the open plan. English in revised translation by Peter Torberg. Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2010, ISBN 978-3-88221-682-0.
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