The Creation of an Avant-Garde Brand

«Pohlmann’s study offers points of departure for scholarship on authorship, authenticity, and irony in the public sphere; anyone entering debates surrounding Christian Kracht's tricky public persona, for example, would do well to read Pohlmann's study first. All in all, Pohlmann’s book is a clear, readable, well-argued, succinct, and insightful work on an author who often invites dense, impenetrable scholarship.» (Michael Wood, German Studies Review 47.3 (October 2024) «All das ist erkennbar in