Aspects of postmodernism and humour. A glimpse on Raymond Federman’s work

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to review aspects of postmodernism in the work of the American writer Raymond Federman, in which humour plays a very important part. This paper demonstrates that Raymond Federman’s literary work is a typically postmodern creation, through the challenges towards the conventions of literature, through the use of discontinuity, fragmentation, metafiction and self-referentiality. The French-American writer captures the way in which the contemporary human being perceives reality in today’s society. Raymond Federman’s novel “The Twofold Vibration” illustrates very well the features of the postmodern novel. Humour is a means of reviving contemporary American fiction.