{"id":8672,"date":"2012-07-17T10:39:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T14:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=8672"},"modified":"2012-07-17T13:07:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T17:07:41","slug":"jorg-fauser-a-quarter-century-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/jorg-fauser-a-quarter-century-already\/","title":{"rendered":"J\u00f6rg Fauser \u2014 a Quarter Century Already"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Started the day thinking on an old friend, the German writer J\u00f6rg Fauser,<\/strong> who was hit & killed by a car 25 years ago today \u2014\u00a0when at the tailend of his 43rd Birthday party he crawled\u00a0through\u00a0a fence & onto a highway. Am packing & getting ready to catch a flight to Europe, so no time for detailed reflections \u2014 just to say that J\u00f6rg, though on the surface readable from over here as a traditional sixties hippie\/dopey with Beat, Burroughs & Bukowski leanings, was something more: the alienation that drove him was also deeply rooted in his need to distance himself (for very cogent reasons) from the \u00fcber-self-satisfied, money- & media-wise very successful\u00a0bourgeois literary world of the Bundesrepublik. In that, as in a number of other ways he reminds me of another German poet friend who also was killed by a car (a London taxi) a few years earlier,\u00a0Rolf\u00a0Dieter\u00a0Brinkmann. \u00a0The one memorial piece in the German press I was able to locate this morning is by Jan K\u00fcveler\u00a0in Die Welt.<\/strong>\u00a0K\u00fcveler suggests that “German literature has not yet recuperated” from this loss. The title of his article translates roughly as And No Need for Asslicking<\/a>\u00a0which is an accurate descrpition of JF’s mindset.<\/p>\n

Here’s a self-description:<\/p>\n

\n

“I’m not a nice guy,
\nI’m a writer,
\nthus one of the darkmen
\nwho work for the world’s oldest agency \u2014
\nthe agency for language and doubt…”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You can check out these 2 sites: the official Fauser<\/a> site,\u00a0which has an index of work with links to book buying (can’t get the new kindle e-ditions from Germany in this country however)\u00a0here<\/a>,\u00a0& the site where the one book of his in English can be bought, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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