FEDERMAN'S BLOG [the laugh that laughs at the laugh...]

Laugh: yes because when some guy weeps somewhere in the world there is always some other guy who laughs somewhere else: happy balance! Never fails its normal equilibrium: laugh or cry it all comes out the same in the end!

mai 14, 2008

 

CHUT

THE RETURN OF THE SURFICTION CHAT ROOM...

NEW! FEDERMAN INNERVIEW

Raymond Federman: An Inner-View" by David Moscovich

It was his generosity which initially impressed me, the continuity and inclusion in his storytelling. In fact, being in the same room with Federman is a lot like reading one of his books--sprinkled with double-dashes, at times conspicuously free of punctuation. At other times, he rewrites the story while you watch, and in his transparency, in his willingness to show you the form, you forget there is a writer at all...

CLICK HERE TO READ THE INNER-VIEW IN THE FALL 2006 ONLINE EDITION OF RAIN TAXI...

NEW FEDERMAN BOOKS

2005 RETOUR AU FUMIER (Novel).
Al Dante, Paris.

2005 MORE LOOSE SHOES & SMELLY SOCKS (Fragments of Writing).
Six Gallery Press, Los Angeles

2006 SURFICTION (Essays]. Editions Le mot et le reste.

2006 ELLE EST LA (avec Mathias Perez)
Carte Blanche, Paris.

2006 LE LIVRE DE SAM : ou des pierres à suçer plein les poches. [Memoire about Beckett]
Al Dante, Paris.

2006 A QUI DE DROIT [Novel – New Edition].
Al Dante, Paris.

2007 LES CARCASSES [Fiction].
Editions Olympique, Bordeaux

2007 COUP DE POMPES [Fragments d’écriture].
Le Mot & Le Reste, Marseille.

2007 RETURN TO MANURE [Novel].
FC2

2007 CHAIR JAUNE [Poems in English & French].
Le Bleu du Ciel, Bordeaux. [Craductions - yes craductions and not translations - by Pierre le Pillouer]

Moinous

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FEDERMAN IS ON MYSPACE...



• myspace.com/raymondfederman



Federman's Play in Avignon



• CLICK HERE: Read Federman's Description of the Multi-Media Play



Federman's Blog Technician:



• Mike Daily



Federman's Movie Theater



• CLICK HERE: Watch "L'histoire de Moinous et Sucette" by Federman


• CLICK HERE: Watch "History of Moinous and Sucette" by Federman (English Translation Page)



Book Specials



• ORDERING FEDERMAN: CLICK TO LAUGHTERATURE CLASSICS



Audio Clips



• CLICK HERE: Listen to "The Dada Poem" by Federman & ART DE FAKT


• CLICK HERE: Listen to "Dada Poem" by Chenard Walcker (Featuring Federman)


• CLICK HERE: Listen to "Ellechim" by ART DE FAKT


• CLICK HERE: Listen to "History Of The Balloon" by Federman & ART DE FAKT


• CLICK HERE: Listen to "Me Too" by Federman & ART DE FAKT


• CLICK HERE: Listen to "Museum Of Imaginary Asses" by Federman & ART DE FAKT


• CLICK HERE: Listen to "The Other Country" by Federman & ART DE FAKT


• CLICK HERE: Listen to "The Potato That Became A Tomato" by Federman & ART DE FAKT


• CLICK HERE: Listen to "Words Out Of A Bad Dream" by Federman & ART DE FAKT



Federman's Links...

• ALTX INTERVIEW


• ARTE TV/Metropolis


• ART|DE FAKT


• Avant-Pop Manifesto (Author Unknown)


• Mark Axelrod


• BECAUSE YOU CAN SEE NOW THAT THE FIRE EATS OXYGEN LIKE YOUR LIFE EATS ALL ITS STORIES
  
• Samuel Beckett


• Bedford Novel


• Carte Blanche éditions


• Catalogue Of Books, Letters & Other Material By Samuel Beckett In Raymond Federman's Private Collection


• George Chambers


• Character, The Fantastic, And The Failure Of Contemporary Literary Theory


• The Chronicle Of Higher Education


• Angela Morgan Cutler


• Ian Cutler: Cynicism From Diogenes To Dilbert


• Mike Daily


• Discussion With Roland Barthes, André Breton, Gilles Deleuze and Raymond Federman


• dossier Federman


• éditions al dante


• Electronic Poetry Center


• EPC Authors: Federman


• EXALT! ALT-X! (Tim Wright)


• Extending The Age Of Spontaneity To A New Era: Post-Beat Poets In America (Vernon Frazer)


• Fantasies Of The Autobiographical Self: Thomas Bernhard, Raymond Federman, Samuel Beckett


• Raymond Federman


• The Federman Collection At Spineless Books


• FEDERMAN MSS.


• The Raymond Federman Papers


• Fed Ex Un Ltd (Jan Baetens)


• Fiction Collective


• 57 Channels & Everything's On, Or: A Hypertextual, Avant-Pop, Millennially - Anxious - If - Fashionably - Skeptical Convulsive Rant On The Future Of The Book, The Internet...& The Death Of William Gibson (Lance Olsen)


• FUSEES


• Future Concentration (English Translation Page)


• Richard Grayson


• Richard Grossman


• Here & Elsewhere


• I d:dr't lnow E~,n,~lish!–Ways to Fail, Dub Mix, Part I


• Internationales Literaturfestival 2005 (Berlin)


• The Journal Of Experimental Fiction


• Karlstad Conference


• Steve Katz


• La voix dans le débarras


• LE MOT ET LE RESTE


• Lichensteiger


• Literati Magazine


• The Mag: Beyond Words


• McCAFFERY ARCHIVE


• Memo To Federman


• Metafiction


• Narratological Amphibiousness, Or: Invitation To The Covert History Of Possibility (Lance Olsen)


• 99 Hand-Written Poems


• O'Grady


• Lance Olsen


• Ted Pelton


• Poetry Salzburg


• POPMATTERS


• Postmodern Theories & Texts


• The Precipice


• Rain Taxi


• The Reading Experience


• Re-Double Or Nothing (Larry McCaffery)


• Reporter


• Six Gallery Press


• Starcher-BLOG


• Starcherone Books


• Yuriy Tarnawsky


• To Remain Always Misunderstood


• Tramps


• Triptych: Hypertext, Surfiction, Storyworlds (Mark Amerika)


• The Twilight Of The Bums (With George Chambers)


• Woman In Bikini (Falling)



Fragments Of Writing



• About Writers & Writing


• Act Without Words For The Hand [A Play For Television]


• Advice For Older Men


• Among The Beasts


• Another Place


• The Bilingualist


• Brudny Zyd Goes To Poland


• The Caravan


• The Carcasses


• The Competition


• Concerning A Close Friend


• Concerning The Novel Everyone Wants To Write


• Corrections


• The Death Of Postmodernism


• The Detective


• A Discussion Concerning Moinous' Tongues


• Don™t Be Afraid


• Down (But Not Out)


• Eating Books


• Explication Of The Poem 'Absence'


• Federman


• The Federman Cycle (A Portion Thereof) Or Debris & Design Of The Holocaust


• Gaston--The Rejected Editor


• Girl Imagined By Chance--Introduction


• Hey Great Deleter!


• The Imaginary Museum Of Samuel Beckett


• Interview With Godot (English/French)


• The Invisible Doubles


• Journey To The End Of Night


• Last Night's Dream


• The Line


• List Of Moinous's Conclusions


• List Of Scenes In The Farm


• The Lost Epigraph


• The Museum Of Imaginary Asses


• My New Clothes


• The Necessity And Impossibility Of Being A Jewish Writer


• News From Tomorrow


• No More Quarrels


• Notes & Counter-Notes


• Notes For Sam


• Notes Scribbled In The Dark While Watching Schindler's List Or What Price Schindler's Pots & Pans?


• Numbers


• PBS Mini Story


• Petit Manuel Des Jouissances


• Plajeu ((Pla(Y)giarism))


• Portraits


• The Postmodern Artist


• Preoccupations


• The Real Begins Where The Spectacle Ends


• Reflections Concerning Ethnic Authenticity


• Reflections Concerning The Oedipus Complex


• Reflections On The Future Of The Farm/Rejection Letters


• Reflections On Ways To Improve Death


• Remembering April Fool's Day


• Remembering The Best Television Show of 1991


• Reminders--To A Writer Friend


• Ron Up & Out & Blown Away Like A Cloud That Changes As It Goes


• Samuel Beckett: The Gift Of Words


• In The Sandbox


• The Shoechou Manifestation


• A Short History Of The Books That Made Me


• Singularly Bored (Poem: Remembering Samuel Beckett)


• Statement


• The Story-Teller


• Tattoo


• That Rope Around The Neck Of Lucky


• Today's Output


• Translating Ginsberg's Queer Shoulder


• A True Rarity (RON)


• The Undecipherable Gesture


• Variations On Isaac Babel's Metaphors


• A Voice Within A Voice


• The Voice


• Whatever Happened To M & N


• What's With The War-Mongering In America?


• The Worm [A Pathetic Little Story]


• The Yellow Humiliation



BOOKS BY RAYMOND FEDERMAN


1964 POSTAL CARDS (Translator -- Poems by Jacques Temple). Noel Young Editions (Santa Barbara, California).

1965 TEMPORARY LANDSCAPES (Translator -- Poems by Yvonne Caroutch). Mica Editions (Venice, Italy). Limited signed edition with etchings.

1965 JOURNEY TO CHAOS: SAMUEL BECKETT'S EARLY FICTION (Criticism). University California Press. Reprinted by Books on demand, 1998.

1967 AMONG THE BEAST/ PARMI LES MONSTRES (Bilingual poems). Milas-Martin Editions (Paris, France). Numbered edition.

1970 CINQ NOUVELLES NOUVELLES (Editor -- Fiction). Appleton-Century-Croft. Re-issued by Irvington Publishers, 1976.

1970 SAMUEL BECKETT: HIS WORKS & HIS CRITICS (Co-author with John Fletcher -- Critical Bibliography). University California Press.

1971 DOUBLE OR NOTHING (Novel -- winner of Frances Steloff Prize and The Panache Experimental Fiction Prize). Swallow Press (Chicago). Re-issued by Ohio University Press, 1976. New revised edition, Fiction Collective Two, 1991. Translated into German under the title Alles Oder Nichts, Greno Verlag / Eichborn Verlag (Frankfurt), 1986. French translation under the titled Quitte ou Duble, Al Dante, Paris, 2004. Radio Play adaptation by the Bayerischer Rundfunk (Munich), 1992. Video Film by Stonehenge Videos (Buffalo), 1984. Stage adaptation in German under the title Alles Oder Nichts.

1974 AMER ELDORADO (Novel in French – nominated for Le Prix Médicis ). Editions Stock (Paris, France). Amer Eldorado 200/1, New edition revised and expanded, Weidler Buchverlag, Berlin, 2001. New edition Al Dante, Paris, 2003. Translated into Portuguese (Brazil). Stage adaptation by Louis Castel for the Festival d’Avignon 2005.

1975 SURFICTION: FICTION NOW & TOMORROW (Editor, Essays on contemporary fiction). Swallow Press (Chicago). Revised & expanded edition, OhioUniversity Press, 1981.

1975 ME TOO (Concrete Poems). Westcoast Poetry Press (Reno, Nevada). Limited edition.

1976 TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT (Novel). The Fiction Collective (New York). New revised edition, The Fiction Collective Two, 1997. Translated into German, Rogner & Bernhard Verlag (Hamburg), 1998. Japanese, 1999; Chinese, 2003. Radio Play adaptation, Bayerischer Runfund [Munich], 1999. CD recording by author, Voys (Minneapolis), 1998.

1976 SAMUEL BECKETT (Co-Editor with Tom Bishop -- Essays/Documents). Editions de L'Herne (Paris). New edition, Hachette, 1985; Re-issued by Édition Fayard, 1999.

1979 THE VOICE IN THE CLOSET/LA VOIX DANS LE CABINET DE DEBARRAS (Bilingual novel). Coda Press (Madison, Wisconsin). Re-issued by Station Hill Press (Great Barrington, New York), 1985. New edition, Starchrone Books (Buffalo, New York), 2001. New expanded edition (Impressions Nouvelles, Paris), 2002. Translated into Dutch, Polish, German -- Trilingual edition, Kellner Verlag (Hamburg), l989; trilingual edition, Tichting Perdu (Amsterdam), 1993; Polish edition, Literatura na Swicies (Warsaw), 1985. Radio Play adaptation by the Bayerischer Rundfunk (Munich), 1991. Modern ballet adaptation, Tanz-Fabrik (Berlin), 1992. Stage adaptation (Heidelberg), 1996. CD publication (Minneapolis), 1996. Audi Book in German, 2000. Recording Radio France, 2003.

1979 SAMUEL BECKETT: THE CRITICAL HERITAGE (Co-Editor with Lawrence Graver -- Essays). Routledge & Kegan Paul, Ltd. (London). Reprinted under the title Modern Drama.

1982 THE TWOFOLD VIBRATION (Novel). Indiana University (Press Bloomington). British edition, Harvester Press(London), 1982. New Deluxe paperback Edition, SUN & MOON PRESS [The Green Interger], 2000. Translated into German (Greno Verlag; re-issued by Suhrkamp Verlag), French (Editions Circé), Polish, Rumanian, Hebrew. Radio Play Adaptation by the Bayerischer Rundfunk (Munich), 1990. Audio Book in German, 2000.

1982 THE RIGMAROLE OF CONTRARIETY (Fiction, chapbook/ limited edition). The Bolt Court Press (Buffalo, New York).

1985 SMILES ON WASHINGTON SQUARE (Novel -- winner of The American Book Award). Thunder's Mouth Press (New York). New edition (deluxe paperback) SUN & MOON (Los Angeles), 1994. Translated into, French, German (Suhrkamp), Italian (Sugarco), Polish, Romanian, Hungarian, Greek, Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish. Radio Play adaptation by the Bayerischer Rundfunk (Munich), 1992. Film Script adaptation now circulating. Audio Book in German, 2000.

1989 PLAYTEXTS/SPIELTEXTE (Experimental Prose & Poetry, in English & German). LCB/DAAD (Berlin). Stage adaptation, Theater Forum (Cologne), 1992. Radio Play adaptation, Bayerischer Rundfunk (Munich), 1992.

1989 DETACHEMENT (Co-translator with G. James -- Essays by Michel Serres). Ohio University Press.

1990 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN (Novel). The Fiction Collective Two (Boulder, Colorado). Translated into, French, German, Italian, Serbian, Rumanian. Radio Play adaptation by the Bayerischer Rundfunk (Munich), 1992.

1991 DUEL-L (Poems in English/French/German). The Stop-over Press (Berlin, Germany). Limited signed edition.

1992 NOW THEN/NUN DENN (Bilingual Poems in English & German). Edition Isele (Freiburg, Germany).

1992 SURFICTION: DER WEG DER LITERATUR (Collected Essays, in German). Suhrkamp Verlag (Frankfurt, Germany).

1993 EINE VERSION MEINES LEBENS (Autobiography with photos, in German). Maro Verlag (Augsburg, Germany). Unpublished as a book in the U.S.

1993 CRITIFICTION: POSTMODERN ESSAYS (Essays on contemporary fiction). State University of New York Press (Albany, New York).

1995 SAM CHANGED TENSE (Editor/Designer with Bill Howe, collection of poems in homage to Samuel Beckett). The Tailspin Press (Buffalo, New York). Limited numbered edition signed.

1995 THE SUPREME INDECISION OF THE WRITER (Essays). The Boltcourt Press (Buffalo, New York/ Ankara, Turkey).

1996 LA FOURRURE DE MA TANTE RACHEL (Novel in French). Editions Circé (Saulxures, France). Expanded version, Al Dante {Paris}, 2003. Translated into German (Faber & Faber, Leipzig, 1997), under the title Der Pelz Meiner Tante Rachel. New edition, DTV (Munich), 2000. Radio Play adaptation, Bayericher Rundfunk, 1998.

1996 THE LINE (Fiction, chapbook, special limited edition). The Club of Odd Volumes (Amherst, New York). Limited edition. Translated into French.

1998 FEDERMAN : FROM A to X-X-X-X [A Recyclopedic Narrative, Edited by Larry McCaffery, Douglas Rice, Thomas Hartl, in collaboration with the author]. San Diego State University Press. Limited edition.

1999 THE PRECIPICE AND OTHER CATASTROPHES (Collected Plays, bilingual edition, English/German). Poetry Salzburg (Austria). Radio play adaptation by Deutschland Radio (Berlin) 1998.

2001 LOOSE SHOES: A life Story of Sorts (Fiction in English & French). Weidler Buchverlag (Berlin). German translation under the title Offene Schuhe [same publisher]. Loose Shoes -- Musical composition by Michael Riessler performed in Munich, Ulm, Frankfurt, Cologne, May 2000.

2001 99 HAND-WRITTEN POEMS / 99 POÈMES FAITS À LA MAIN. Weidler Buch verlag [Berlin].

2001 AUNT RACHEL’S FUR [novel] The Fiction Collective 2 [Distributed by Northwestern University Press].

2001 AMER ELDORADO 200/1 [novel] Weidler Buch Verlag [Berlin]. New revised and expanded redesigned edition, Al Dante Presse (Paris).

2002 THE LAUGH THAT LAUGHS AT THE LAUGH – WRITING FROM AND ABOUT THE PEN MAN, RAYMOND FEDERMAN. Special issue of The Journal of Experimental Fiction. Writers Club Press.

2002 MON CORPS EN NEUF PARTIES (Fiction). Weidler Bucherverlag (Berlin). New revised expanded edition, Al Dante Presse (Paris), 2003. Stage adaptation, Théâtre Compagnie Lumas, St. Étienne, 2005.

2002 THE TWILIGHT OF THE BUMS (Microfiction, with George Chambers). Altx Press [Boulder, Colorado] Also available as an E- book from Altx.com. German translation (Suhrkamp Verlag), 1998, under the title Penner-Rap. Radio play adaptation under the title The Dialogues of the Bums, Bayerischer Rundfunk, 1997.

2003 SURCOMIXXXX (poems un English and German with comic strips illustrations]. Edited by Dirk Gortler. Editions Klauss Isele, 2003. Ten different artists illustrated the book.

2003 HERE & ELSEWHERE (Poems). The Six Gallery Press [Macon, Georgia].

2003 FUTURE CONCENTRATION (Collected bilingual poems). Editions Le mot et le reste [Marseille, France].

2003 ICI & AILLEURS (Poem). Editions Le mot et le Reste [Marseille, France]. Limited signed livre d’artiste édition.

2003 A QUI DE DROIT (Novel in French}). La Société des écrivains [Paris].

2004 LE CRÉPUSCULE DES CLOCHARDS (Microfiction). Editions Le mot et le reste [Marseille].

2005 L’EXTATIQUE DE JULE & JULIETTE [Erotic poems]. Editions Le mot et le reste. Limited edition.

2005 MY BODY IN NINE PARTS with three supplements & photos. (Novel). Starcherone Books, Buffalo [New York].

2005 MORE LOOSE SHOES & SMELLY SOCKS (Fragments of Writing). Six Gallery Press, Los Angeles.

2005 RETOUR AU FUMIER (Novel). Al Dante, Paris.

2006 ELLE EST LA (Livre d’artiste – avec Mathias Perez). Carte Blanche, Paris.

2006 SURFICTION (Essays]. Editions Le mot et le reste.

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