Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Raymond Federman, a French -American postmodern writer, created his own literary manifesto in which he announced a movement he called "surfiction".According to Federman, surfiction does not differentiate between reality and fiction since they are interchangeable.Federman followed this closely in his works, to the point where it is impossible to state that anything he had ever written, even about his own life and childhood, is based on reality or is entirely fictitious.His novel Shhh: The Story of a Childhood is truly representative of Federman's surfiction, since it does offer an account of his early childhood, something he refused to write about for a very long time, yet it is written in such a way that the reader is left constantly questioning the veracity of the text in front of them.This novel is Federman's last, which is important to note because of his
Author: Marija Ðorđević
Institution: University of Belgrade
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4406489895