Rave - by Rainald Goetz (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>An unapologetic embrace of the nightlife under the motto 'Meet girls. Take drugs. Listen to music', <i>Rave</i> attempts to capture the feel of debauchery from within while critiquing the media structures that contribute to the 'epochality' of pop culture phenomena.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>'Meet girls. Take drugs. Listen to music.' In <i>Rave</i>, cult German novelist Rainald Goetz takes a headlong dive into nineties techno culture. From the cathartic release on the dance floor to the intense conversations in corners of nightclubs and the after-parties in the light of dawn, this exhilarating, fragmentary novel captures the feeling of debauchery from within. Dazzling and intimate, <i>Rave</i> is an unapologetic embrace of nightlife from an author unafraid to lose himself in the subject of his work.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>'Goetz's writing is a kind of dancing. Each sentence, fragment, captures the essence of what it's like to live inside the spaces of techno music. Thoughts come and go, and return louder, later in the text, with an urgent rhythm that makes the cumulative case for the transformative power of the dance floor. This is writing of and from the body, hot, sweaty, dazed, decadent, and ultimately life-affirming.'<br> -- Julia Bell, author of <i>The Dark Light</i> <p/> '<i>Rave</i> matches [Bernhard] with its pitch-black humour and philosophical intensity. Questions of interiority, the external world, language and meaning are opened up within its circuit of pills and beats and clubs, like a genuinely meaningful drug trip.'<br> -- <i>Financial Times</i> <p/> 'In <i>Rave</i>, Goetz makes an electrifying portrait of what happens when you dedicate your life to the night, to the bass and the rhythm, when you party nonstop and rave like there is no tomorrow. [...] What makes <i>Rave</i> so effective is that Goetz chronicles the tenor of rave culture's endless cycle. The reader becomes part of the weekends of excessive indulgence, the "cracked" out week after, and the intrigues that linger. [...] I often felt a contact high reading <i>Rave</i>'<br> -- Shane Anderson, <i>Los Angeles Review of Books</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Rainald Goetz, born in 1954 in Munich, studied History and Medicine in Munich and obtained a doctoral degree in both subjects. He briefly worked as a doctor, but quit this profession for the sake of literature in his early thirties. His first novel, <i>Insane</i>, was published in 1983. In 1998, Goetz wrote the internet diary 'Rubbish for Everyone', probably the first literary blog in Germany, with entries on the world of media and consumerism. It was published in book form in 1999 and together with <i>Rave</i>, <i>Jeff Koons</i>, <i>Celebration</i> and <i>Deconspiration</i> belongs to <i>This Morning</i>, his great history of the present. Goetz has been awarded numerous prizes, most notably the Georg Büchner Prize in 2015. He lives in Berlin.
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