Double or Nothing: A Real Fictitious Discourse
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Book Overview
Double or Nothing is a concrete novel in which the words become physical materials on the page. Federman gives each of these pages a shape or structure, most often a diagram or picture. The words... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:093251149X
ISBN13:9780932511492
Release Date:January 1992
Publisher:F2c
Length:267 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.6" x 8.5"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
absolutely fascinating genial eye-and-mindboggling
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
my review is short -- a line from a great poem by w.b. yeats: how can you tell the dancer from the dance
One of the best experimental novels out there
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
The structure of this book is ingeniuous - it's a guy writing a book about a guy writing a book about a 19 year old French Jewish boy coming to the US after his family is killed in the camps in WW2. This means you're immersed in this obsessive story about a guy planning on boying 365 days' worth of toilet paper and noodles and locking himself in a room to write, while the story about the kid is unrolled bit by bit, changed, modified, and improved. The typeography is all over the place, making the confusion even more profound by drawing things with the text, switching fonts, spacing, etc. There's a lot of humor in the obsession of the fictional writer, and the index/discourse at the end of the book is a killer. The writing puts it over the top, but the structure - the whole idea - is one of a kind.
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