Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 2002. Vol. 8. Eger Journal of American Studies.(Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 28)

Studies - Zoltán Abádi-Nagy: Conversations with Raymod Federman: Take It or Leave It and The Voice in the Closet

ZOLTÁN ABÁDI-NAGY CONVERSATIONS WITH RAYMOND FEDERMAN: TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT AND THE VOICE IN THE CLOSET This is part of a tape-recorded interview conducted in the Debrecen Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on 19 February 1986, when Raymond Federman visited Kossuth University as part of a highly successful lecture tour in Hungary. Professor Federman kindly revised the transcript of our conversation. In this part of the interview

—published here for the first time

—he discusses Take It or Leave It and The Voice in the Closet. Some other sections of our book-size talks have already been published separately. The "chapter

" principally addressed to fiction generally ("An interview with Raymond Federman

") is available in Modern Fiction Studies (34.2 11988]: 157-70)—while the Hungarian version of the same section

, complemented with the discussion of Smiles on Washington Square, is accessible in Hungarian, in Világregény—regény világ: amerikai íróinterjúk ("The Novel of the World—The World of the Novel: Conversations with American Writers"; Debrecen: Kossuth Egyetemi Kiadó, 1997. 213-51). The section devoted to Double or Nothing has also been published in English ("Conversations with Raymond Federman: Double or Nothing." Happy Return Essays for István Pálffy. Ed. Péter Szajfkó and Tamás Bényei. Debrecen: KLTE, 1999. 270-78.). The Twofold Vibration segment was carried by the Federman issue of Experimental Fiction ("Twofold Welcome to Raymond Federman. " 23 (2002): 139-59.). 91