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An Answer from the Silence - A Story from the Mountains by Max Frisch; Mike Mitchell (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Swiss List Ser.
This novel by esteemed Swiss writer Max Frisch is an exploration of the question: "Why don't we live when we know we're here just this one time, just one single, unrepeatable time in this unutterably magnificent world? " This outcry against the emptiness of ordinary everyday life uttered by the hero of ...Show more
Man in the Holocene by Frisch Max
Category: Fiction | Series: Swiss Literature Ser.
A stunning tour de force, Man in the Holocene constructs a powerful vision of our place in the world by combining the banality of an aging man's lonely inner life and the objective facts he finds in the books of his isolated home. As a rainstorm rages outside, Max Frisch's protagonist, Geiser, watches t ...Show more
The Arsonists by Max Frisch
Category: Poetry
Fires are becoming something of a problem. But Biedermann has it all under control. He's a respected member of the community with a loving wife and a flourishing business, so surely nothing can get to him. The great philanthropist is happy to meet his civic duty by giving shelter to two new guests but w ...Show more
Zurich Transit by Max Frisch
Category: Performing Arts | Series: The\Seagull Library of German Literature Ser.
This screenplay by Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch was developed from an episode in his 1964 novel Gantenbein, or A Wilderness of Mirrors. At the center of both works is Theo Ehrismann, a man who cannot seem to change his life no matter how many times he resolves to do so. Chance comes to Theo ...Show more
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