An unapologetic embrace of the nightlife under the motto ‘Meet girls. Take drugs. Listen to music’, Rave attempts to capture the feel of debauchery from within while critiquing the media structures that contribute to the ‘epochality’ of pop culture phenomena.



‘Meet girls. Take drugs. Listen to music.’ In Rave, 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, Rave is an unapologetic embrace of nightlife from an author unafraid to lose himself in the subject of his work.