Max Frisch

• Nov-1982
• / General Fiction
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A playfully postmodern novel exploring questions of identity from a major Swiss writer.A man walks out of a bar and is later found dead at the wheel of his car. On the basis of a few overheard remarks and his own observations, the narrator of this no...

• Sep-1984
• / General Fiction
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• May-1994
• / General Fiction
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A man who strives for pure rationality and control finds himself at the mercy of fate, in a “novel that speaks tellingly of loneliness, love, and despair” (Booklist).   Walter Faber, engineer, is a man for whom only the tangible, calculable,...

• May-1994
• / General Fiction
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The classic German novel with a narrator as “treacherous, evasive and compelling as an Edgar Allan Poe murderer or a Raymond Chandler detective” (The New York Times).The unabridged version of a haunting story of a man in prison. His wife, brother...

• May-1994
• / Suspense
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Frisch charts the crumbling landscape of an old man’s consciousness as he slips away from himself toward death and reintegration with the age-old history of our planet. A “luminous parable...a masterpiece” (New York Times Book Review). Translat...

• Mar-2011
• / General Fiction
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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 agains...

• Apr-2016
• / Literary
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Max Frisch's candid story of his affair with a young woman illuminates a lifetime of relationships. Casting himself as both subject and observer, Frisch reflects on his marriages, children, friendships, and careers; a holiday weekend in Long Island i...