The Carcasses: A Fable

By Raymond Federman

The Carcasses is the last of Federman's texts to be published during his lifetime. It is a "self-transaction" and expansion of the 2009 French edition, Les Carcasses. In this science-fictional fable there is life after death, and even fornication between carcasses condemned to eternally linger in a universal zone: a Beckettian limbo in which all carcasses - humans, animals or homofaunas - are subject to constant and tragi-comical transmutation.

RAYMOND FEDERMAN (1928-2009) were many persons: Holocaust survivor and WWII orphan, farm worker, paratrooper in the US Army, Korean War veteran, interpreter in Tokyo, sporting ace (swimming, tennis, golf), jazz musician, black marketeer, gambler, bon vivant, inventor of surfiction, bilingual author, translator, teacher, renowned Samuel Beckett scholar, Distinguished Professor, and father. Federman was born in Paris, France, in 1928. When he was fourteen years old, his parents and two sisters were arrested during the 1942 roundup by the Nazis and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp for extermination. The boy survived because his mother had pushed him into a closet for hiding. In different versions, and both in English and in French, Federman again and again told various parts of the life story of a man called "Federman," trying to decipher the gesture of his mother that saved his life. He received the American Book Award, and his books have been translated into 14 languages.

Invisible Starfall Books' RAYMOND FEDERMAN EDITION is a series of republications of the author's books in their definitive version, spiced up with first editions of unpublished and uncollected texts. Carefully proofread and with a new design, each book was produced in close cooperation with Simone Federman, the daughter and literary executor of Raymond Federman.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G6XDFCTY
• ISBN13: 9798876396297
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"