Critifiction
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- ISBN 9780791416808
- Weight: 227g
- Publication Date: 04 Nov 1993
- Publisher: State University of New York Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Examines how, beginning in the 1960s up to the present, a new type of fiction was created in America, but also in Europe and Latin America, in response to the cultural, social, and political turmoil of the time.
This book examines how, beginning in the 1960s up to the present, a new type of fiction was created in America, but also in Europe and Latin America, in response to the cultural, social, and political turmoil of the time. The author has coined the term "Surfiction" for this New Fiction. Written in an informal, provocative style, by an internationally known practitioner, these essays examine the cultural, social, and political conditions that forced serious writers to reflect (often within the work itself) on the act of writing fiction in the modern world. The entire book can be read as a manifesto for the present and future of the new fiction. This book is the first in the SUNY series in Postmodern Culture, edited by Joseph Natoli.
Raymond Federman is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Director of the Creative Writing Program at State University of New York at Buffalo. He is a bilingual novelist, poet, critic, and translator who has published over twenty books (fiction, poetry, criticism) and numerous essays and articles. His novels have been translated into a dozen languages.
