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Sketchbook, 1966–1971

English · Hardback

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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 of musings on architecture and writing, travelogue, autobiography, and political insight. He considers Cold War tensions as well as the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements in the United States. Now middle-aged himself, he looks squarely at men's evolving attitude to life, love, sex, women, and status. And for all the idyllic descriptions of his new home in Berzona, Frisch becomes increasingly critical of his native Switzerland, in particular the crackdowns on left-wingers and protestors, and receives abuse for his stance. Based on the second German edition that reinstated material that had been removed from the original 1972 version, this fresh and definitive translation brings an important mid-twentieth-century European classic back to life.


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Max Frisch (1911-91) was a giant of twentieth-century literature, achieving fame as a novelist, playwright, diarist, and essayist. His works include Andorra, I'm Not Stiller, A Wilderness of Mirrors, and Man in the Holocene. Simon Pare is a translator of French and German literature who lives in Switzerland.


Product details

Authors Max Frisch, Simon Pare
Assisted by Simon Pare (Translation)
Publisher Seagull Books London Ltd
 
Content Book
Product form Hardback
Publication date 07.07.2023
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard
 
EAN 9781803091402
ISBN 978-1-80309-140-2
Pages 600
Dimensions (packing) 23.8 x 16.4 x 3.2 cm
Weight (packing) 820 g
 
Series The Swiss List
Subjects BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
Biography / Autobiography
 

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