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Sketchbook, 1946–1949

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Sketchbook, 1946–1949 / Tagebuch 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 importance. Beyond that, the diary takes up a pivotal place in the genesis of Max Frisch's literary work. It contains early narrative attempts, sketches and structural models from which the great plays and novels would later evolve.

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 importance. Beyond that, the diary takes up a pivotal place in the genesis of Max Frisch's literary work. It contains early narrative attempts, sketches and structural models from which the great plays and novels would later evolve.

»What's revealed in these sketchbooks is just that patient good sense, an unflappable, unapologetic humanity - though marked by an ambivalent quietism, an old-world politeness, a concreteness and skepticism that can only be described as Swiss.« Max Norman, Wall Street Journal
»What's revealed in these sketchbooks is just that patient good sense, an unflappable, unapologetic humanity - though marked by an ambivalent quietism, an old-world politeness, a concreteness and skepticism that can only be described as Swiss.« Max Norman, Wall Street Journal
1950, 415 pages
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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, born in Zurich in 1911, first worked as a journalist, later as an architect, until his breakthrough as a writer with his novel...

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

»We Didn’t Do Well.«
Year of Publication: 2022
Ingeborg Bachmann, Max FrischYear of Publication: 2022

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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Questionnaire
Year of Publication: 2019
Max FrischYear of Publication: 2019

»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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Sketches of an Accident/Sketches of an Accident Victim
Year of Publication: 2018
Max Frisch, Uwe JohnsonYear of Publication: 2018
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...
Ignorance as State Security?
Year of Publication: 2015
Max FrischYear of Publication: 2015
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...
From the Berlin Journal
Year of Publication: 2014
Max FrischYear of Publication: 2014
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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Drafts for a Third Sketchbook
Year of Publication: 2010
Max FrischYear of Publication: 2010
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...
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An Answer from the Silence
Year of Publication: 2009
Max FrischYear of Publication: 2009

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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Montauk
Year of Publication: 1975
Max FrischYear of Publication: 1975

»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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I’m Not Stiller
Year of Publication: 1973
Max FrischYear of Publication: 1973
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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Sketchbook, 1966–1971
Year of Publication: 1972
Max FrischYear of Publication: 1972
»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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Gantenbein
Year of Publication: 1964
Max FrischYear of Publication: 1964
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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Homo faber
Year of Publication: 1957
Max FrischYear of Publication: 1957

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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