»To this day, Fauser has remained a subcultural hero . . .«

»Hard-hitting on the attack, with tender fervour in adoration, always operating along the ravages of time.«

»Whatever he wrote left its mark.«

»When has an author, before or after, ever taken such a euphoric and existential position as a writer?«

»There are moments of sardonic humour as he plumbs the depths of human desperation and degradation.«

»His books are documents of the will to survive. There are masterpieces in his rich oeuvre. Those who find them, think: This is what it is really like, life. That is the greatest compliment you can make to literature.«

»An unforgotten pioneer of pop literature.«

»Jörg Fauser was a crosser of borders and a driven man, his style similarly breathless and feverish as his spurt of life between dropout and drug tourist, city magazine and prose, popular and high culture.«

»Like almost no one else, Fauser had a talent for linking coarse realism and poetry.«

»The Clint Eastwood of German literature.«

»I think Fauser is a genius!«

»Full of integrity, believable and always at the top of his game, Jörg Fauser remained true to two artistic principles: ›Every well-told story is a thriller‹ and ›Good entertainment is about taking a certain stance‹.«

»They [Fauser’s texts] remain amongst the best long-form journalism written in the German language over the last fifty years. [. . .] to read Fauser is to explore the soul of the old Federal Republic. [. . .] Fauser [. . .] composes his texts with the drive and furor of the language-obsessed desperado [. . .]«

»Just like you always return to Chandler in American literature, you should refer to Fauser time and again in German literature. It helps to survive.«

»The future of the German-language crime novel truly began with The Snowman and The Snake Mouth, far away from the so-called socio-crime novels emulating the Beck series by the Swedish writing team Sjöwall/Wahlöö«

»No other German writer captured the dark – and therefore authentic – soul of the Federal Republic better than the underground-highbrow wordsmith Jörg Fauser.«

»The literary industry may sing the praises of book after book, but the writing of Jörg Fauser, who received neither awards nor grants during his lifetime, will outlive many of them.«

»Stylistically speaking, his novel Raw Material seems more fitting to the present day than to 1984.«

»The literary element in Fauser’s writing was rooted in his ability to condense reality and, in the process, build uncompromisingly upon his own experiences.«

»This author is a walking contradiction, but his timeless tone makes his work feel absolutely contemporary.«

»Reading Fauser is an experience, even today. [. . .] By reading Fauser, you not only discover more about the colourful – and increasingly so – Federal Republic, but also about life itself.«

»He had something of the beatnik about him, but also an element of aristocratic Englishness. [. . .] You’ll be amazed at how fresh his writing feels.«

»His texts convey so much about the reality of West German life in the 1970s and 1980s.«

»Jörg Fauser is a cult writer and hidden gem rolled into one.«

»Fauser’s long-ago present day seems to always be responding to the current present day, and vice versa.«

»Fauser, the master of shades of grey, doesn’t pander to black-and-white thinking.«

»The Clint Eastwood of German literature.«

»Jörg Fauser (1944–1987), the ›German Bukowski‹, was a sublime storyteller, poet and journalist.«