Brainfuck (with GRM pronounced as Grime) is a dystopian novel by the German-Swiss author Sibylle Berg, published in April 2019 by Kiepenheuer & Witsch.
For example, due to high unemployment, the unconditional basic income is introduced, but at the same time it is linked to a morally normative, technological state surveillance system.
Only after a change of government following a political election do they integrate into society, which, according to the end of the book, leads to the isolation of the four participants from each other.
Ursula März of Die Zeit finds the ability of this gloomy milieu study to evoke tenderness and empathy in the reader despite its brutality to be a colossal achievement.
[3] Carsten Otte in Der Tagesspiegel also attests to the novel's astonishing impact, despite its simple narrative premise and rabid doom-mongering.
[6][7] For Philipp Theison in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung the book is hard to categorise and against everything that still believes in a blueprint for the future.