Yet they, and their radical tendencies, received a surprising amoung of serious attention, investigation, and imitation (and, further indicating their prominence in 1970s America, unreasonable hostile criticism). These books were disquieting: different, difficult, untraditional, unclassifiable, and at times interpretable. (Copenhagen and Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2000)Īs one of the most innovative periods in American letters, the 1970s (roughly speaking) gave birth to an unprecedented number of literary experiments, producing scores of outlandish and frequently outrageous metafictional/surfictional/cirtifictional/superfictional/fabulational novels by writers such as Sukenick, Federman, Katz, Gass, Gins, Kostelanetz, and Major. Take It or Leave It (Normal, Illinois: FC2, 2000) and The Twofold Vibration. Reviews of Raymond Federman's Take It or Leave It and The Twofold Vibration
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