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An Answer from the Silence - A Story from the Mountains by Max Frisch; Mike Mitchell (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
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
Drafts for a Third Sketchbook by Max Frisch
$31.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: The Swiss List
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 of eighty, the man whom many see as Switzerland's greatest writer k ...Show more
Man in the Holocene by Frisch Max
$23.95 AUD
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
Sketchbook, 1966-1971 by Max Frisch; Simon Pare (Translator)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: The\Swiss List Ser.
A fresh translation of the second volume of Max Frisch's diaries. By the time Swiss author Max Frisch published the second volume of his diaries or sketchbooks, he had achieved international recognition as a writer and dramatist. In this volume, he develops his version of the literary diary as a mosaic ...Show more
Sketchbook 1966-1971 by Frisch Max Skelton Geoffrey
$25.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Zurich Transit by Max Frisch
$19.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | 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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