The voice in the closet / Raymond Federman ; [with a preface by Ted Pelton].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Federman, Raymond, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paris (France)--History--1940-1944--Fiction.

Paris (France).

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Jews--France--Paris--Fiction.

Jews.

Jewish children--Fiction.

Jewish children.

France--Paris.

Genre:

Jewish fiction.

Experimental fiction

Fiction

History

Autobiographical fiction.

Experimental fiction.

Physical Description:

54 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York City, New York : Calamari Archive, Ink, [2025]

Summary:

"On a July morning in 1942, Raymond Federman's childhood ended, as his parents and two sisters were arrested by collaborationist French police and sent to their deaths at Auschwitz, with Raymond alone evading capture, surviving because his mother pushed him into an upstairs closet. The Voice in the Closet is Federman's most important book, the place where this author of more than a dozen other works of fiction addresses himself to the story at the core of all his work, putting the author in dialogue with the child he was that day, who protests, "no I cannot resign myself to being the inventory of his miscalculations I am not ready for my summation nor do I wish to participate any longer willy nilly in the fiasco of his fabrication failed account of my survival abandoned in the dark with nothing but my own excrement to play with now neatly packaged on the roof to become the symbol of my origin in the wordshit of his fabulation..."

Notes:

"Originally published in 1979 by Coda Press, reissued by Starcherone Books in 2001." -- colophon.

ISBN:

9781940853499

1940853494

OCLC:

1528854817

Publisher Number:

90104771018