The Voice in the Closet. La voix dans le cabinet de débarras (en Inglés)
Reseña del libro "The Voice in the Closet. La voix dans le cabinet de débarras (en Inglés)"
The Voice in the Closet / La voix dans le cabinet de débarras is the pivot point of Federman's textiverse, and it is also the transition point between his first phase of fictional and typographical madness (the first three novels) and the subsequent phase of a more condensed and stricter aesthetic (first realized in his novel The Twofold Vibration). The Voice is an echo chamber of narrative and authorial voices blurring together in a narrative space that fictionalizes the closet in which Federman was hidden by his mother to ensure his survival, in the form of a claustrophobic text design in which each line has the same number of letters and each page has the same number of lines, resulting in a perfect textual square (English version) or a perfect textual rectangle (French version). This new and definitive bilingual edition of the text includes an introduction by the author and a postscript by the editor.
RAYMOND FEDERMAN (1928-2009) were many persons: Holocaust survivor and WWII orphan, farm worker, paratrooper in the US Army, Korean War veteran, interpreter in Tokyo, sporting ace (swimming, tennis, golf), jazz musician, black marketeer, gambler, bon vivant, inventor of surfiction, bilingual author, translator, teacher, renowned Samuel Beckett scholar, Distinguished Professor, and father. Federman was born in Paris, France, in 1928. When he was fourteen years old, his parents and two sisters were arrested during the 1942 roundup by the Nazis and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp for extermination. The boy survived because his mother had pushed him into a closet for hiding. In different versions, and both in English and in French, Federman again and again told various parts of the life story of a man called "Federman," trying to decipher the gesture of his mother that saved his life. He received the American Book Award, and his books have been translated into 14 languages.
Invisible Starfall Books' RAYMOND FEDERMAN EDITION is a series of republications of the author's books in their definitive version, spiced up with first editions of unpublished and uncollected texts. Carefully proofread and with a new design, each book was produced in close cooperation with Simone Federman, the daughter and literary executor of Raymond Federman.
