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Double or Nothing : A Real Fictitious Discourse by Raymond Federman is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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''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 move, cluster, jostle, and collide in a tour de force full of puns, parodies, and imitations. Within these startling and playful structures Federman develops two characters and two narratives. These stories are simultaneous and not chronological. The first deals with the narrator and his effort to make the book itself; the second, the story the narrator intends to tell, presents a young man's arrival in America. The narrator obsesses over making his narrative to the point of not making it. All of his choices for the story are made and remade. He tallies his accounts and checks his provisions. His questioning and indecision force the reader into another radical sense of the novel. The young man, whose story is to be told, also emerges from his obsessions. Madly transfixing details-- noodles, toilet paper, toothpaste, a first subway ride, a sock full of dollars-- become milestones in a discovery of America. These details, combined with Federman's feel for the desperation of his characte

Who reads Double or Nothing : A Real Fictitious Discourse?

Author

Raymond Federman

Publisher

Fiction Collective 2

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780817380472

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.92 / 5 (106 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14