| Raw Material | |
| Author: | Jörg Fauser |
| Title Orig: | Rohstoff |
| Orig Lang Code: | de |
| Translator: | Jamie Bulloch |
| Country: | West Germany |
| Language: | German |
| Genre: | autobiographical novel |
| Publisher: | Ullstein Verlag |
| Pub Date: | 1984 |
| English Pub Date: | 2014 |
| Pages: | 218 |
| Isbn: | 3550064780 |
Raw Material (German: Rohstoff) is a 1984 autobiographical novel by the German writer Jörg Fauser. Set in the 1960s, it follows the author's alter ego Harry Gelb as he lives as a heroin addict in Istanbul, as an alcoholic, menial worker and struggling writer in a Berlin commune, and as a squatter in Frankfurt. Gelb rejects everything he regards as insipid, hierarchical and doctrinaire, whether it is mainstream culture or left-wing revolutionary groups.[1]
Fauser and Raw Material developed a cult following in Germany. The book has been compared to American beat literature and the works of Charles Bukowski. It was published in Jamie Bulloch's English translation in 2014.[2] [3]