An Interview with Raymond Federman
This is part of a tape-recorded interview conducted in the Debrecen Center of the Hungarian Academy of Arts and Sciences on 19 February 1986, when Raymond Federman visited Kossuth University as part of a highly successful lecture tour in Hungary. Professor Federman has kindly revised the transcript of our conversation. He is the author of Double or Nothing (1971), Amer Eldorado (1974), Take It or Leave It (1976), The Voice in the Closet/La Voix dans Ie Cabinet de DÃ©barras (1979), The Twofold Vibration (1982), and also of Smiles on Washington Square (1985), the novel that won the American Book Award in 1986. In this part of the interview Professor Federman discusses fiction generally. The section principally addressed to his own work will be published separately.