Russell Hoban's fiction has been described as unclassifiable. This study attempts to refute this view by adopting a dynamic, "nonlinear" method of classification which is able to deal with the thematic shifts, the formal experiments and the linguistic subversions which characterize the work of this little-known but original contemporary writer. Advocating a pluralistic involvement with texts, Yvonne Studer examines in detail the novels and shorts stories published between 1967 and 1996, among them the children's classic The Mouse and his Child and the novels Turtle Diary>, Riddley Walker, and Fremder.
