Raymond Federman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Raymond Federman

Novelist, poet, critic, translator, academic

Date of Birth: 15-May-1928

Place of Birth: Montrouge, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 06-Oct-2009

Profession: writer, poet, translator, university teacher, literary critic, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Raymond Federman (May 15, 1928 – October 6, 2009) was a French–American novelist and academic, known also for poetry, essays, translations, and criticism.
He held positions at the University at Buffalo from 1973 to 1999, when he was appointed Distinguished Emeritus Professor.
Federman was a writer in the experimental style, one that sought to deconstruct traditional prose.
This type of writing is quite prevalent in his book Double or Nothing, in which the linear narrative of the story has been broken down and restructured so as to be nearly incoherent.
Words are also often arranged on pages to resemble images or to suggest repetitious themes.