{"title":"Max Frisch","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMax Frisch\u003c\/strong\u003e presents a compelling blend of introspective fiction and reflective memoir, exploring themes of identity, memory, and human experience. His works, such as \u003cem\u003eAn Answer from the Silence\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eZurich Transit\u003c\/em\u003e, invite readers into narratives that are both philosophical and deeply personal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlongside his general fiction, Frisch’s sketchbooks offer a unique window into his creative process, bridging the worlds of \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e and biography. His writing resonates with a thoughtful examination of life’s complexities, making his collection a rich journey for those drawn to both literary art and self-reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"an-answer-from-the-silence-by-max-frisch-9780857427106","title":"An Answer from the Silence","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen this novel begins, the protagonist has just turned thirty, is engaged to be married, and is about to start work as a teacher. Frightened by the idea of settling down, he journeys to the Alps in a do-or-die effort to climb the unclimbed North Ridge, and by doing so, prove he is not ordinary. However, he returns not in triumph but in frostbitten shock, having come dangerously close to death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis personal early novel reflects a crisis in Max Frisch's own life, and perhaps because of this intimate connection, he refused to allow it to be included in his \u003ci\u003eCollected Works\u003c\/i\u003e in the 1970s. Now available in English, this distinctive book will thrill fans of Frisch's other works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46710457827564,"sku":"9780857427106","price":23.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7196593482493.jpg?v=1754149722"},{"product_id":"sketchbooks-1946-1949-by-max-frisch-9780857429766","title":"Sketchbooks, 1946-1949","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA new translation of one of the earliest volumes of Max Frisch’s innovative notebooks.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout 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 English. First published in English translation in the 1970s, these sketchbooks played a major role in establishing Frisch as, according to the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, “the most innovative, varied and hard-to-categorize of all major contemporary authors.” His diaries, said the \u003cem\u003eTimes\u003c\/em\u003e, “read like novels and his best novels are written like diaries.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow Seagull Books presents the first unabridged English translation of \u003cem\u003eSketchbooks, 1946–1949\u003c\/em\u003e in a new translation by Simon Pare. This edition reinstates material omitted from the 1977 edition, including a screenplay for an unmade film. In this first volume, which covers the years 1946 to 1949, Frisch chronicles the intellectual and material situation in postwar Europe from the vantage point of a citizen of a neutral, German-speaking country. His notes on travels to the scarred cities of Germany, to Austria, France, Italy, Prague, Wroclaw, and Warsaw paint a complex and stimulating picture of a continent emerging from the rubble as new fault lines are drawn between East and West. As Frisch completes his final architectural projects and garners early success as a writer, he reflects on theatre, language, and writing, and he sketches the outlines of plays, including \u003cem\u003eThe Fire Raisers\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCount Öderland\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhatever experience he chronicles in the sketchbook—whether it’s a Bastille Day party, an Italian fish market, or a tightrope display amid the ruins of Frankfurt or an afternoon by Lake Zurich with Bertolt Brecht, to take just a few examples—his keen dramatist’s eye immerses the reader in the setting while also probing the deeper significance and motivations underlying the scene. This new translation will serve to draw out the immediacy and contemporary quality of Frisch’s observations from the shadow of his status as a classic author, bringing his work to life for a new audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46855834501356,"sku":"9780857429766","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7223193482493.jpg?v=1759280514"},{"product_id":"zurich-transit-by-max-frisch-9780857428189","title":"Zurich Transit","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eZurich Transit\u003c\/i\u003e, a screenplay by Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch, was developed from an episode in his 1964 novel \u003ci\u003eGantenbein\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eor A Wilderness of Mirrors\u003c\/i\u003e. At the centre 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 one day upon returning from a trip abroad - he arrives home to read his own obituary in the paper. He shows up just on time for his own funeral and observes the attending mourners, and yet he is not able to reveal himself to them, and especially not to his wife. 'How does one say that he is alive?' wonders Theo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLife, as Frisch said, 'is the sum of events that happen by chance, and it always could as well have turned out differently; there is not a single action or omission that does not allow for variables in the future.' \u003ci\u003eZurich Transit\u003c\/i\u003e presents Frisch at the height of his dramatic powers and exemplifies his ardent belief in a dramaturgy of coincidence rather than causality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083102011628,"sku":"9780857428189","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7207423482493.jpg?v=1765281458"},{"product_id":"sketchbook-19661971-by-max-frisch-9781803091402","title":"Sketchbook, 1966–1971","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA fresh translation of the second volume of Max Frisch’s diaries.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBased 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47427854303468,"sku":"9781803091402","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781803091402.jpg?v=1774767270"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/max-frisch.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}