Max Frisch - Böcker

Die Kernzelle von Andorra findet sich in Max Frischs Tagebuch als Eintragung des Jahres 1946. Andorra ist der Name für ein Modell: Es zeigt den Prozeß einer Bewußtseinsveränderung, abgehandelt an der Figur des jungen Andri, d...

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Mit seinen Romanen Stiller und Homo faber führte Max Frisch in den fünfziger Jahren ein Thema in die deutsche Literatur ein, das bis heute von großer Aktualität ist: die Frage nach der Identität des Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Auch seine Stücke...

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»Die bloße Tatsache, dass drei Himmelskörper, Sonne und Erde und Mond, gelegentlich in einer Geraden liegen, was notwendigerweise eine Verdunkelung des Mondes verursacht, brachte mich aus der Ruhe, als wisse ich nicht ziemlich genau, was es mit ei...

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"Anser du att man kan mäta värdet av en vänskap genom dess varaktighet?" Den schweiziske författaren Max Frisch nedtecknade under sitt skrivande liv en rad skarpsinniga och underhållande frågor riktade både till sig och till läsaren. Des...

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Walter Faber is an emotionally detached engineer forced by a string of coincidences to embark on a journey through his past. The basis for director Volker Schlsndorff's movie Voyager. Translated by Michael Bullock. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

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Text und Kommentar in einem Band. In der Suhrkamp BasisBibliothek erscheinen literarische Hauptwerke aller Epochen und Gattungen als Arbeitstexte für Schule und Studium. Der vollständige Text wird ergänzt durch anschaulich geschriebene Kommentare.

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Bei seiner Einreise in die Schweiz wird Mister White festgenommen, weil er für die Polizei mit dem verschwundenen Bildhauer Anatol Ludwig Stiller identisch ist. Frühere Freunde bestätigen den Verdacht. Er aber widersetzt sich dieser...

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The novel tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who believes in rational, calculated world. Strange events undermine his security - an emergency landing in a Mexican desert against all odds, his friend Joachim hang...

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The novel tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who believes in rational, calculated world. Strange events undermine his security - an emergency landing in a Mexican desert against all odds, his friend Joachim hang...

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A stranger walks out of a bar an is later found dead at the wheel of his car. The narrator creates the story of this man-or, rather, two stories, based on the two personae that he has imagined. One of these is named Enderlin; the other, Gantenbein...

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Stories, authobiography, impressions, interviews, and reflections on a variety of topics from politics to women, marriage, friendship, and death. Translated by Geoffrey Skelton. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.

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An American traveling in Switzerland is arrested and accused of being Anatol Stiller, a famous sculptor, wanted by the police.

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Reissue of this Methuen classic to tie in with a major new production The republic of Andorra is invaded by totalitarian forces. The populace capitulates to the anti-Semitism of the aggressor and betrays Andri, the foundling son of the local schoo...

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Three contentious and enduring plays about the clash of the individual and society Fire Raisers (1958) tells the tale of a respectable bourgeois whose house is one day visited by three strangers. It "is successful on every level; the story is...

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Includes the full German text, accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.

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Walter Faber is an emotionally detached engineer forced by a string of coincidences to embark on a journey through his past. The basis for director Volker Schlšndorff's movie Voyager. Translated by Michael Bullock. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

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New York...I HATE IT...I LOVE IT...I DON'T KNOW...". These are the reflections of Max Frisch, writing from his apartment in the Big Apple near the end of the twentieth century. Beginning in 1946 and continuing until his death at the age ...

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Max Frisch (1911 91) was a giant of twentieth-century German literature. When Frisch moved into a new apartment in Berlin's Sarrazinstrasse, he began keeping a journal, which he came to call the Berlin Journal. A few years later, he emphasize...

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This novel by esteemed Swiss writer Max Frisch is an exploration of the question: Why dont we live when we know were here just this one time, just one single, unrepeatable time in this unutterably magnificent world?! This outcry against the emptin...

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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 h...

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A new translation of one of the earliest volumes of Max Frisch's innovative notebooks. Throughout his life, the great Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch (1911-1991) kept a series of diaries, or sketchbooks, as they came to be known in E...

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Includes the full German text, accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.

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But the best disguise, I find, is always the absolute bollock naked truth. Its really strange. Nobody believes it. This is an amoral morality play. Its also got songs in it. Fires keep starting. All across the city, arsonists worm their way into r...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Arrested and imprisoned in a small Swiss town, a prisoner begins this book with an exclamation: "I'm not Stiller!" He claims that his name is Jim White, that he has been jailed under false charges and under the wrong identity. To prove h...

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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 r...

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