Man in the Holocene
Author: Max Frisch
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9781564784667
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A luminous parable . . . A masterpiece." The New York Times
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Homo Faber
Author: Max Frisch
Publisher:
Published: 2022-12-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789357001441
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe protagonist of the book is Walter Faber, a middle-class UNESCO engineer who thinks the universe is logical and measured. Strange occurrences threaten his sense of security. He makes an impossible emergency landing in the Mexican desert, his friend Joachim hangs himself in the forest, he falls in love with a woman who dies of a concussion, and he engages in an incestuous relationship. Finally, stomach cancer strikes Faber, but it is too late for him to make any changes to his course of action.
Bluebeard
Author: Max Frisch
Publisher: Harcourt on Demand
Published: 1984-09
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780156131988
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter his acquittal in court of the strangulation murder of a call girl, his ex-wife, Dr. Schaad relives the trial within his own mind as he attempts to come to terms with his guilt or innocence
Correspondence
Author: Max Frisch
Publisher: Swiss List
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781906497910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTogether Max Frisch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt are not only two of the most esteemed Swiss writers of the twentieth century, but arguably two of the most important European writers since World War II. The remarkable letters gathered here document their unique, unlikely, and extraordinary friendship. This collection of correspondence offers a picture of two temperaments that could not have been more different. As their letters show, at first their friendship was tentative, both critical and respectful, as one might imagine of two contemporary literary giants. Then, under the pressure of their increasing fame, Frisch and Dürrenmatt's letters became more teasing in spirit and began to carry a noted undertone of irony. Finally, perhaps inevitably, the friendship became seriously endangered and failed. Available in English for the first time, this collection includes an introduction by Peter Rüedi that places the letters within the context of the authors' lives and works, as well as the larger historical events of the time. Detailed notes, a chronology, photographs, and facsimiles of the original letters complete the book, which will be engaging reading for admirers of Frisch and Dürrenmatt as well as fans of modern German writing in general.
I'm Not Stiller
Author: Max Frisch
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9781564784506
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Readers cannot but feel the force of what remains one of the most important novels of the post-war years." Times Literary Supplement
Perspectives on Max Frisch
Author: Gerhard F. Probst
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-12-14
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 0813194121
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMax Frisch, with his countryman Friederich Diirrenmatt, shares the place of eminence in contemporary Swiss literature. Indeed, he ranks high among the recent leading writers in the German language. But, although several of his works— novels and plays—have been translated into English, he remains little known in America. In this collection of essays an international group of scholars provides a fresh introduction to this noted author. The three leading essays review Frisch's work in the forms he has used most extensively—drama, narrative fiction, and the personal diary. The remaining nine essays focus on specific works or topics. Among the works examined are I'm Not Stiller, A Wilderness of Mirrors, Wilhelm Tell, and the recent Man in the Holocene. Among the topics are Frisch's use of language and images, his treatment of women, and the element of parody. Concluding the volume is the most complete bibliography on Frisch to appear in English to date.
Plays Of Max Frisch
Author: Michael Butler
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-12-30
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1349178535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKZurich Transit
Author: Max Frisch
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 93
ISBN-13: 9780857422873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe screenplay "Zurich Transit" was developed from an episode in the novel Gantenbein, published in 1964: 'A story for Camilla: of a man who decides several times to change his life but, of course, never succeeds ...' Yet one day he, Theo Ehrismann, returns from a trip abroad and reads in the paper his own obituary. He arrives just on time for his own funeral and observes the attending mourners, and yet he is not able to reveal himself to them, especially not to his wife: 'How does one say that he is alive?' Max Frisch counters the traditional dramaturgy based on causality with a dramaturgy of coincidence. 'Life,' Max Frisch said in 1965, 'is the sum of events that happen by chance, and it always could as well have turned out differently; there is not a single action or omission that does not allow for variables in the future.'
A Companion to the Works of Max Frisch
Author: Olaf Berwald
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1571134182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive advanced introduction to and scholarly commentary on the work of the Swiss writer Max Frisch, one of the leading German-language dramatists and novelists of the late twentieth century. One of the most influential German-language writers of the late twentieth century, Max Frisch (1911-1991) not only has canonical status in Europe, but has also been well received in the English-speaking world. English translationsof his works are available in multiple recent editions. Frisch was a recipient of both the Büchner Award (1958), and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (1976); his body of work explores questions of identity, alienation, and ethics in modern society. He is best known for the plays Andorra (1961), a seminal drama that examines indifference and mass psychology in the context of the Shoah and continues to be produced by theaters around the world, and Biedermann und die Brandstifter (1958), another worldwide success and one of the most frequently used texts in advanced undergraduate German courses in the United States, as well as for his novels Stiller (1954), Homo Faber (1957), and Mein Name sei Gantenbein (1964). Yet Frisch has only recently begun to receive the sustained scholarly attention he deserves: neither a comprehensive introductory volume to nor a collaborative handbook on the works of Frisch is available in English, a situation that this volume redresses. Contributors: Régine Battiston, Klaus van den Berg, Olaf Berwald, Amanda Charitina Boyd, Céline Letawe, Walter Obschlager, John D. Pizer, Beatrice Sandberg, Caroline Schaumann, Frank Schaumann, Walter Schmitz, Margit Unser, Daniel de Vin, Ruth Vogel-Klein, Paul A. Youngman. Olaf Berwald is Professor of German and Chair of the Departmentof Foreign Languages at Kennesaw State University.
