Grondstof, Jörg Fauser, vertaling Marten de Vries, Leesmagazijn nu ook ontdekt in Engeland : His novel Raw Material is like nothing else you will have read before. To foist a genre on it, it’s a picaresque, but what a crazed, leaping, unmoored and hilarious voyage it is. It opens in the spring of 1968, a time of socio-political upheaval and an atmosphere drenched in revolutionary fervour, in Paris, Prague, Vietnam and Northern Ireland … The Baader-Meinhof gang is active. Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Last Exit to Brooklyn are under scrutiny, as is Oz. Our hero, Harry Gelb, is 24 and living on a rooftop in Istanbul with his partner in crime, Ede. Gelb is a struggling writer and a struggling junkie (is there any other kind?), a swindler, a scammer, a thief. This is the 60s, yes, but there’s no peace-and-love; Gelb is “rapidly approaching the season of hell”.
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