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From
Surfiction to Hypertext
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From
Surfiction to Hypertext
Interview with
Raymond Federman
Raymond
Federman,
born in France (1928), emigrated to the U.S. in
1947 (after he survived deportation to Auschwitz as
the only person of his family), is one of
contemporary literature's most radical thinkers and
influential authors and critics. He was a
Distinguished Professor of French, English, and
Comparative Literature at The State University of
New York at Buffalo (he is now retired] but
considers himself primarily a fiction writer.
Federman has published several books of criticism
on the work of Samuel Beckett as well as
contemporary literature, numerous essays and
articles, four volumes of poems and ten novels,
written in English or French, translated into
German, Italian, French, Hungarian, Polish,
Serbian, Rumanian, Hebrew, Dutch, Greek, Japanese,
and Chinese. Federman has received numerous awards,
and was a fellow/artist in residence in France,
Israel, and Germany. There he gave his poetic
lectures in 1990 (published in 1992 in Edition
Suhrkamp) about Surfiction and the prospects of
literature. Roberto Simanowski talked to Raymond
Federman about contemporary aesthetics of
spectacle, the concept of surfiction and
critifiction, and its relation to hyperfiction and
realfiction.
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