The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures

The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures is a must-read for anyone looking for serious fiction that engages with the biggest issues of our times as well as a hilarious, humanist, gorgeously written treatise on the currents that stir the human soul under the direst circumstances. I read this book in almost a single breath, and it is easily the best novel I’ve encountered this year, brilliant and funny and profound, producing some of the most complex, fascinating characters I’ve ever known. As far as I’m concerned, the novel is an instant classic.
Reading this gorgeous, dark, and haunted book, one is astonished time and again at Jennifer Hofmann’s prodigious gifts … This is art of the highest order, a masterpiece of restraint, insight, and style. It is a singular feat for a book about subject matter this chilling to make the reader feel so deeply; and yet that is part of the work of timeless literature. * We Are Not Ourselves *
A beautiful and haunting novel that will linger in the minds of its readers… The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures challenges the reader to separate the fantastical from the merely bizarre. Is it the state or its citizens who are losing their minds? And how much repression can the human heart and soul withstand? * The Betrayers *
Intelligent and thought-provoking but also deeply funny * NB Magazine *
[C]lever and constantly surprising…This is a novel in which nothing much appears to happen, yet the gradual accumulation of facts gives it a powerful fascination * The Times *

Jennifer Hofmann is a Berlin-based, Austrian-American writer and translator. She received her MFA from New York University, where this novel was written. THE STANDARDIZATION OF DEMORALIZATION PROCEDURES marks the arrival of a new talent.

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