I have seen Innocence puke - The book

«Good day, the world lies in ruins», are the Dirk Bernemanns initial words, before he carries the reader away into the abysms of a world which strikes a chord in us because it’s an all too familiar one – it is our world!
When reading Bernemann’s book it seems like someone has finally taken off our rose-coloured glasses by knocking them off our heads.
With poetic vividness he celebrates a massacre of life which is both fascinating and repugnant.
He puts his protagonists into an emotional state of emergency and writes about the world’s collateral damages with his sense of macabre humour.
He uses language skillfully, expressing the inner conflicts and ambivalence of the protagonists.
The different episodes of the book fall into place at the end of the book, thus creating a cohesive work which is bigger than the sum of its parts.
Just like in Quentin Tarantino’s «Pulp Fiction», apparent coincidences are strung together and one slowly realizes that the character of the second episode has already made an appearance in the first episode.
Thus there’s a thread running through this analysis of society and it soon becomes clear that it was blood that made this thread look shining red ...

Presscomments

«Book of the year 2006» Orkus readers poll

«He is Bukowskis honorable successor!» Uwe Lochmann

«Fascinating ... a very interesting analysis of society. ...  No one who reads this book will remain unaffected. You can bet your life on it!» Schwäbische Zeitung

«Brilliant work!» gothicparadise.de

«Bernemann hit the mark with this little reality excursion.» Zuckerkick

«linguistically strong!» Augsburger AZ

«Literature of an altitudinarian do-gooder with resignative tendencies, becoming desperate in view of this, his, world yet still rebelling against it, is probably one of the most apt descriptions of Bernemann’s ‘I have seen innocence Puke’.» Orkus

«Sick yet fascinating!» Kwick!

«Very impressive tast of sinister creativity» Mephisto

Dirk Bernemann - The author

Dirk Bernemann started to express his worldview and state of mind to an audience back in 1989, mainly through different musical projects, playing a mixture of experimental sounds and raw three-chord punk rock. Before long, his early texts were published in various anthologies – without being accompanied by music.
His debut book „I Have Seen Innocence Puke“ was published by Ubooks in 2005 and attracted the public’s attention. Bernemann’s book received numerous reviews. The author’s readings, one of them held within the scope of the official programme of the book fair in Leipzig, left a fascinated and stunned audience behind.
Bernemann – neither regarding himself as an art project nor an artist nor a plain reporter – simply refers to himself as an author and leaves any further interpretation to the readers and critics who gladly pick up the thread and give their fancy full scope.

PDF-File with sample translation

puke_bernemann.pdf