Return to manure

Return to manure

by Raymond Federman
4/5
(16 votes)

In 1942, after hiding to escape the Nazis, our narrator (named, simply, Federman) finds his way to Vichy France.

Unwanted by his relatives, he is forced to spend the remainder of the war as an unpaid laborer.

For three wordless years on the farm, this thi.

Format
204 pages, Paperback
First published
2007
Publishers
FC2
Language
English

The sheer lyricism of this work makes it more than worth the ride. Federman plays with us, teases us, and compells us to read late into night as his narrator drives his wife mad with delays and digressions.

Well, let me see. This is both autobiography and fiction at the same time.

Almost all Federman is out of print or import-price in my country, except this novel(?) about his imaginative and real-life return to the French farm he worked on as a slave during WWII under the tyrannical hand of Lauzy.

Raymond Federman

About Raymond Federman

Raymond Federman 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....

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