Novels, plays, essays /

"This volume, consisting of excerpts of some of Frisch's most important novels, literary diaries, plays, speeches, and other prose texts, presents a survey and offers an introduction to a much larger literary oeuvre... One thing about his collection is unique: Max Frisch himself selected t...

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Main Author: Frisch, Max, 1911-1991 (Author)
Other Authors: Kieser, Rolf, 1936- (Editor, Translator), Skelton, Geoffrey (Translator), Bullock, Michael, 1918-2008 (Translator), Carey, Alice, 1943- (Translator), Segal, Lore Groszmann (Translator), Stern, Paul, 1882- (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
German
Published: New York : Continuum, 1989.
Series:German library; v. 90.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Novels and other narratives
  • from 'Sketchbook 1946-1949' / translated by Geoffrey Skelton
  • from 'I'm not Stiller' / translated by Michael Bullock
  • from 'Homo Faber: a report' / translated by Michael Bullock
  • from 'Gantenbein' / translated by Michael Bullock
  • from 'Sketchbook 1966-1971' / translated by Geoffrey Skelton
  • Wilhelm Tell: a school text / translated by Lore Segal and Paul Stern
  • from 'Military service record' / translated by Alice Carey
  • from 'Montauk' / translated by Geoffrey Skelton
  • from 'Man in the Holocene' / translated by Geoffrey Skelton
  • Part II. Plays
  • from 'Now they are singing again' / translated by Alice Carey
  • Don Juan, or the love of geometry and postscript / translated by Michael Bullock
  • from 'Andorra' / translated by Michael Bullock
  • from 'The fire raisers' / translated by Michael Bullock
  • from 'Biography: a game' / translated by Michael Bullock
  • from 'Triptych: three scenic panels' / translated by Geoffrey Skelton
  • Part III. Essays and speeches
  • Emigrants: speech on the occasion of the awarding of the George Buëchner Prize, 1958 / translated by Alice Carey
  • Foreignization I / translated by Alice Carey
  • Switzerland as Heimat?: speech on the occasion of the awarding of the Grand Schiller Prize / translated by Alice Carey
  • Questionnaire 1987: words of thanks on the occasion of the bestowal of an honorary doctorate by the Politechnical Institute of Berlin, June 29, 1987 / translated by Rolf Kieser.