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240 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1973
"Complete Idiots" is a week in the lives of young journalists in Frankfurt who consider themselves very progressive, sitting together every evening with beer, wine, and games, gradually getting drunk and spouting increasingly inane nonsense. It's a book full of mindless drivel, but told by a very intelligent and highly educated author who wants to portray all this stupidity on the level of Franz Kafka, Vladimir Nabokov, and Dostoevsky's "Demons." Not for everyone—and, I fear, never translated from German. Although this author might be one to bring about a somewhat altered perception of what it means to be German in other countries. (As I said, this book only with heterosexual lust.)