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Biography

Name: Max Frisch
Birth Date: May 15, 1911
Death Date: April 4, 1991
Place of Birth: Zurich, Switzerland
Place of Death: Zurich, Switzerland
Nationality: Swiss
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, novelist, dramatist

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Biography of Max Frisch
893 words, approx. 3 pages
The Swiss novelist and dramatist Max Frisch (1911-1991) explored the nature of human identity, individuality, and responsibility. His work is characterized by an ironic depiction of the issues confronting man in a technological society. Max Frisch was...
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Biography of Max (Rudolf) Frisch
4,956 words, approx. 17 pages
One of the most respected writers in the German language, Max Frisch achieved recognition as a playwright after World War II and made his mark with experimental narrative prose, notably the novel Stiller (1954; translated as I'm Not Stiller, 1958). He...
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Biography of Max Frisch
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German drama during the 1950s would be unthinkable without the works of Max Frisch and Friedrich Durrenmatt; the lack of postwar drama in West Germany was made up for by these two Swiss playwrights between 1945 and 1960. They were the best qualified to...
 


Quotations
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Max Frisch Quotes
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Max Frisch ( 15 May 1911 – 4 April 1991 ) was a Swiss architect, playwright and novelist, who is regarded as one of the most influential Swiss writers of the 20th century. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 I'm not Stiller (1955) 1.2 Gantenbein (1964) 1.3...


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Max Frisch Information
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Max Frisch (May 15, 1911 – April 4, 1991) was a Swiss architect, playwright and novelist, regarded as highly representative of German literature after World War II. In his creative works Frisch paid particular attention to issues relating to...


News and Journals
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The Germanic Review
Understanding Max Frisch. (book reviews)
06/22/1994: 905 words, approx. 3 pages
This is the first study of Max Frisch in English that covers his complete oeuvre, with the exception of his pamphlet "Schweiz ohne Armee? Ein Palaver," published in 1989. In keeping with the series' program, "Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature," and...
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The Modern Language Review
Max Frisch, Friedrich Durrenmatt: Briefwechsel.(Review)
01/01/2001: 816 words, approx. 3 pages
Max Frisch, Friedrich Durrenmatt: Briefwechsel. Ed. by PETER RUEDI. Zurich: Diogenes. 1998. 240 pp. DM 39. It was perhaps inevitable that two very different German-Swiss authors who achieved world fame at approximately the same time should be linked in the perception of...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Mary Karen Dahl
11,655 words, approx. 39 pages
In the following essay, Dahl analyzes the function of hero sacrifice, subjugation, and scapegoating within a community as illustrated in Sophocle's Oedipus the King, Frisch's Andorra, and Sławomir Mrożek's The Prophets.
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Critical Essay by Peter C. Thornton
10,438 words, approx. 35 pages
In the following essay, Thornton interprets Homo faber in terms of the Daedalus myth.
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Critical Essay by John Russell
8,586 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Russell classifies Frisch's Sketchbook 1946-1949 as a nonfiction novel, contending that the way he orders his experiences in the diary “caused novelistic form to rise to the surface.”
 


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