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Raw Material
Alexander Verlag Berlin
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This page was created as a tool for literary agents and foreign publishers interested in working with Alexander Verlag Berlin.
The translation rights for Rohstoff are still available for all languages.
The German paperback rights were sold to Diogenes Verlag in Zurich. They will publish all nine volumes of the Fauser-Edition in 2009 in their mass paperback series.
About the author
Jörg Fauser (1944–1987) was a German writer, poet and journalist. In the late 1967 he went to live in the notorious junkies colony in Tophane, Istanbul. A year later he returned to Germany and became involved with the student movement living in a Berlin commune and then in an occupied house in Frankfurt. Having broken his dependency on heroin at the age of thirty he spent much of the rest of his working life dependent on alcohol. Fauser died on the night of his 43rd birthday, run over by a truck on a German highway.
Jörg Fauser is one of the most significant writers of the 1968-generation. He adored and was very much influenced by Anglo-American Literature (Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammet, William S. Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, Alain Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Eric Ambler, Graham Greene). He is seen by many contemporary German writers (Jakob Arjouni, Feridun Zaimoglu, Helmut Krausser, Maxim Biller) as an unsurpassable model.
Fauser introduced a new American "touch" in German prose, lyric and essay, in order to offer an alternative to what he saw as the well-meaning, overly optimistic literature predominating in West Germany. In the 80s he made a breakthrough with novels and crime stories, but he also did editorial work for several magazines, wrote columns, radio plays, songs and reports about crime and politics, refusing any kind of separation between "high" and "popular" literature. His writings are populated by dealers, crooks, alcoholics, junkies, whores (remaining true to his claim: »When literature does not stay with the downtrodden, it may as well be considered as rent a party service«), described with incorruptible glance, but his texts are also exact and scrutinizing documents of West German reality.
Rohstoff (1984) - Raw Material
Jörg Fauser as an observer of his life and his times: junkie in Istanbul, communard in Berlin, squatter in Frankfurt, even if he never really was part of the "movement". Rohstoff is a melancholic, angry, rough and disillusioned portrait of a generation after 1968 in Germany (and elsewhere), but also the account of his unresting and voracious efforts to establish himself as a writer.
PRESS
»One of the best German novels of all. Why has this book not been available for so long? Incomprehensible. Anyways, now Rohstoff is here again. At last.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
»Rohstoff is Fauser's best and everlasting book.« Die Zeit
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