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DW book expert David Levitz on 'Raw Material' by Jörg Fauser

Pumped full of drugs and alcohol and no money to speak of, but with a snazzy typewriter in tow: Back in the 1960s nothing said "Take me seriously, I'm a writer!" quite like this baby. "Raw Material" by Jörg Fauser is about the compulsion to write.

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Jörg Fauser: 'Raw Material' 08.10.2018

He wrote faster, harder and more concisely than anyone else, often about drugs and living on the margins. Jörg Fauser was the restless king of the literary underground who lived as uncompromisingly as he wrote.