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620:) at the beginning of the twentieth century. Engelhardt is an idealistic German emigrant who establishes a plantation on an island and founds a colony of cocovores – radical vegetarians nourished exclusively on coconuts. Engelhardt's history is interspersed with cameo appearances by other figures from German cultural history, such as
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The protagonists of Kracht's fiction embark on journeys that take them in search of an elusive moment of immersive, utopian experience or spiritual enlightenment often located in a different nation or culture. Their journey usually, but not always, results in disappointment, failure or even death.
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on the Earth's atmosphere are part of a vast cosmic conspiracy. Early reviews varied from the critical to the bewildered, one describing it as "großer
Quatsch" ("a load of nonsense"). Another reviewer refers to the book as a parody of "alarmism" and suggested it should be taken as a joke: "But if
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during the titular year. This novel also deals with alienation and a chiefly
Western form of consumer existence, but it depicts the fragility of an apparently decadent Western-metropolitan value system and its powerlessness before the Eastern-totalitarian models of Islamism and Maoism. After the
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never returned to Russia from
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as a novel about the affirmation of brand names and consumer culture, a second wave of criticism suggested that the novels evinces the protagonist's dissatisfaction with his lifestyle and existential "ennui". Early criticism of the novel suggested the influence of
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with which the novel's publication coincided. Kracht is sceptical about such a reading of his work and argues that he writes literary "light entertainment" and "comedies". Thus, during a television appearance on the popular
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during a period of political unrest. The chiefly German-language magazine was ultimately completed in San
Francisco with a total of eight editions as originally planned. The magazine featured regular contributions from
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novel
Faserland. He has sometimes been a controversial figure in modern German-language literature. The meaning of his pronouncements in interviews is not always obvious; his description of the
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Spiegel's Indian correspondent. Kracht then moved to Bangkok, from where he visited various other countries in South East Asia and authored travel vignettes which were serialised in the
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ideas". The accusation of racism levelled at Kracht was widely repudiated by other figures in the literary industry, including publisher Helge
Malchow and fellow authors, such as
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both in its very favourable reception by critics and in the way that it presents a reimagining of history that incorporates actual persons and historical
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this book is taken as a joke, it probably is not a bad one".
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in collaboration with Eckhart Nickel. He initially lived in
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in 2001, Kracht argued that his book was essentially
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1172:1993 – Axel Springer Prize for Young Journalists
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2021:from the original on 22 August 2022
1901:from the original on 22 August 2022
1552:Titze, Anne-Katrin (25 June 2014).
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1188:In the words of the awarding jury,
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1870:from the original on 25 March 2020
1838:from the original on 24 March 2020
1715:Gustav Seibt (19 September 2008).
1541:from the original on 21 June 2021.
1527:Blaney, Martin (5 November 2019).
1177:Phantastik-Preis der Stadt Wetzlar
962:New Wave. Ein Kompendium 1999–2006
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1920:Interview with Denis Scheck
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2014:The Hollywood Reporter
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1265:18 August 2022 at the
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763:Die totale Erinnerung
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1534:Screen International
1506:19 June 2015 at the
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211:Letter from the Past
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926:Der gelbe Bleistift
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597:Measuring the World
565:Ich werde hier sein
550:Süddeutsche Zeitung
491:Harald Schmidt Show
318:Alain Robbe-Grillet
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190:Der gelbe Bleistift
167:Journalistic Career
139:Kracht was born in
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1783:Die Methode Kracht
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1616:Christian Buß in
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1019:978-3-462-04131-6
1004:978-3-86525-235-7
957:978-1-932595-27-7
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