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Drafts for a Third Sketchbook / Entwürfe zu einem dritten Tagebuch
Edited and with an afterword by Peter von Matt
The typescript of a previously unknown work was discovered in the Max Frisch Archive in Zurich in 2009. A total of 184 pages, dictated by Frisch, typed from tape by his secretary. A hand-written note by the author on the cover sheet reads, »Diary 3. Beginning spring 1982«.
»Am I clinging to life? I’m clinging to a woman. Is that sufficient?«
As of spring 1982, Max Frisch lived in New York, together with his partner Alice Locke-Carey,...
As of spring 1982, Max Frisch lived in New York, together with his partner Alice Locke-Carey,...
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The typescript of a previously unknown work was discovered in the Max Frisch Archive in Zurich in 2009. A total of 184 pages, dictated by Frisch, typed from tape by his secretary. A hand-written note by the author on the cover sheet reads, »Diary 3. Beginning spring 1982«.
»Am I clinging to life? I’m clinging to a woman. Is that sufficient?«
As of spring 1982, Max Frisch lived in New York, together with his partner Alice Locke-Carey, the »Lynn« known from his short story Montauk. His relationship with the considerably younger woman; the USA and Switzerland; the Reagan administration; the Cold War; the death from cancer of a close friend. Like the two legendary diaries published in respectively 1950 and 1972, his Drafts for a Third Sketchbook records snapshot images alongside longer, reflective passages – elevating apparently dashed-off notes to literary status.
Peter von Matt, President of the Board of the Max Frisch Foundation, edited and annotated this one-of-a-kind discovery containing surprising details that inform our understanding of Frisch anew after his death in 1991.
»Max Frisch's career has been one long assault on repression, self-satisfaction, and bourgeois right-mindedness. Frisch — the Swiss who would not be Swiss — has done everything in his power to throw off the burden of his heritage.« Sven Birkert, author of An Artificial Wilderness: Essays on 20th Century Literature
»Max Frisch’s last book was never finished. But the draft of it, the outlines of the final revelation of life and letters from that great author, is now available with this book.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
»Frisch is a master of the sketch, a gifted natural descriptor, a precise observer who spent his entire life grappling with themes of doubt, guilt, the relationship of the individual to society, and the question of who one is and who one could be […]. Few can shape feelings into words like this author. And few are as merciless with himself.« Der Standard
»A unique document, without illusions and full of doubts, but always with a sharp and sensual view of the world.« Die Zeit
»Max Frisch's career has been one long assault on repression, self-satisfaction, and bourgeois right-mindedness. Frisch — the Swiss who would not be Swiss — has done everything in his power to throw off the burden of his heritage.« Sven Birkert, author of An Artificial Wilderness: Essays on 20th Century Literature
»Max Frisch’s last book was never finished. But the draft of it, the outlines of the final revelation of life and...
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2010, 213 pages
Persons
Max Frisch
Author
Max Frisch, born in Zurich in 1911, first worked as a journalist, later as an architect, until his breakthrough as a writer with his novel Stiller (1954). This was followed by the novels Homo faber (1957) and Mein Name sei Gantenbein (1964) as well as short stories, diaries, plays, radio plays and essays. Frisch died in Zurich on April 4, 1991.
Max Frisch
Author
Max Frisch, born in Zurich in 1911, first worked as a journalist, later as an architect, until his breakthrough as a writer with his novel...
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Year of Publication: 2022
Ingeborg Bachmann, Max FrischYear of Publication: 2022
»We Didn’t Do Well.«
Spring 1958: Ingeborg Bachmann – celebrated poet, winner of Literary Prize of Gruppe 47 and cover star of Der Spiegel – is broadcasting the radio play Der gute Gott von...
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Year of Publication: 2019
Max FrischYear of Publication: 2019
Questionnaire
»Do you consider yourself to be a good friend? Are you a good friend to yourself?« Twenty-three questions on the subject of friendship lie between these two queries. Max Frisch’s...
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Year of Publication: 2018
Max Frisch, Uwe JohnsonYear of Publication: 2018
Sketches of an Accident/Sketches of an Accident Victim
In his Sketchbook, 1966–1971, Max Frisch published fragments of a story under the title »Sketches of an Accident«. In these fragments, the doctor Viktor travels with his lover, Marlies, a specialist in Romance studies, to Provence. An accident occurs, and the woman dies. Viktor is never again involved in an accident, but the rest of his life is influenced by his...
Year of Publication: 2015
Max FrischYear of Publication: 2015
Ignorance as State Security?
In his final typescript, in a deeply personal way and in a novel literary form, Max Frisch engaged with the national scandal that rocked Switzerland in 1989 and 1990: almost a million Swiss citizens had been under State surveillance during the Cold War. On individualised index cards or »fiches« the Attorney General’s Office created a chronicle of suspicion, whose grotesque banality served...
Year of Publication: 2014
Max FrischYear of Publication: 2014
From the Berlin Journal
The legendary Berlin Journal is one of the great treasures in Max Frisch’s posthumous papers. Frisch himself mandated that it not be published until twenty years after his...
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Year of Publication: 2009
Max FrischYear of Publication: 2009
An Answer from the Silence
Max Frisch’s literary career began in 1934 with the novel Jürg Reinhart, a summery tale of the road to destiny. Three years later in the German publishing establishment he...
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Year of Publication: 1975
Max FrischYear of Publication: 1975
Montauk
»I want to describe this day, nothing but this day, our weekend and all of this happened, what happens next, without inventing anything.«
»Max Frisch’s candid story of his...
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Year of Publication: 1973
Max FrischYear of Publication: 1973
I’m Not Stiller
Upon entering Switzerland, Mister White is arrested because the police believe he is the missing sculptor Anatol Ludwig Stiller. Former friends confirm their suspicion. Yet White denies this...
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Year of Publication: 1972
Max FrischYear of Publication: 1972
Sketchbook, 1966–1971
»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...
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Year of Publication: 1964
Max FrischYear of Publication: 1964
Gantenbein
A man sits in his flat, alone. The carpets are rolled up, the shutters closed, the furniture is covered with white cloths. »Of the people who once lived here, one thing is certain: one male,...
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Year of Publication: 1957
Max FrischYear of Publication: 1957
Homo faber
Max Frisch‘s Homo faber is one of the most important and most-read books of the 20th century: Engineer Walter Faber believes in a rational worldview that is irrevocably destroyed by a...
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Year of Publication: 1950
Max FrischYear of Publication: 1950
Sketchbook, 1946–1949
Max Frisch's sketchbook is a survey. His reports from Europe between the years of 1946 and 1949, the accounts of his encounters in the post-war years are of both historic and current...
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