The aging Swiss novelist and playwright recounts a weekend tryst with a thirty-year-old American divorcee and the memories, revelations, recognitions, and acceptances occasioned by their one-time-only rendezvous.

Product Description: This screenplay by Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch was developed from an episode in his 1964 novel Gantenbein, or A Wilderness of Mirrors. At the center 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...read more

Product Description: A stunning tour de force, Man in the Holocene constructs a powerful vision of our place in the world by combining the banality of an aging man’s lonely inner life and the objective facts he finds in the books of his isolated home...read more

An American traveling in Switzerland is arrested and accused of being Anatol Stiller, a famous sculptor, wanted by the police

Product Description: Through thoughtful analysis of coincidence and serendipity, the Fool and his Tarot troupe take the reader on a romp through uncharted territory. Sometimes irreverent, the book names the Players of politics, sports, and religion, Superstars all, and relies on humor to make a point...read more

Product Description: Drama. Translated from the German by Michael Bullock. The three plays collected in this volume—"Santa Cruz," "Now They're Singing Again," and "Rip van Winkle"—were the first of Max Frisch's dramatic works to reach the public. Now for the first time they appear in English, thanks to the translation skills of Michael Bullock...read more

Book by Taylor, Barry

Loneliness and despair invade the world of an engineer who comes to realize that he has failed as a friend, husband, and father (view table of contents)

Product Description: Frisch charts the crumbling landscape of an old man’s consciousness as he slips away from himself toward death and reintegration with the age-old history of our planet. A “luminous parable...a masterpiece” (New York Times Book Review)...read more

Product Description: Three contentious and enduring plays about the clash of the individual and societyFire Raisers (1958) tells the tale of a respectable bourgeois whose house is one day visited by three strangers. It "is successful on every level; the story is as gripping as an adventure story; each line is fraught with several meanings: as an allegory it is unique" (Edna O'Brien); Andorra is based on the author's own experience of anti-semitism in Switzerland and is about Andri, a young man who is believed to be a Jew and who is persecuted by his community as a result; Triptych is a portrait of a writer grappling with his own mortality...read more

Product Description: Texts include selections from "Sketchbook 1946-1949," "I'm Not Stiller," "Homo Faber: A Report," "Gantenbein," "Sketchbook 1966-1971," "Wilhelm Tell: A School Text," "Military Service Record," "Montauk," and "Man in the Holocene." The plays includes selections from "Now They are Singing Again," "Don Juan," "Andorra," "The Fire Raisers," "Biography: A Game," and "Tryptich: Three Scenic Panels...read more

Includes the full German text, accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.

Gottlieb Biedermann, a German businessman, tries to ignore the fact that the two men in his attic are arsonists, in hopes of preventing them from burning down his house

After his acquittal in court of the strangulation murder of a call girl, his ex-wife, Dr. Schaad relives the trial within his own mind as he attempts to come to terms with his guilt or innocence

Product Description: Stories, authobiography, impressions, interviews, and reflections on a variety of topics from politics to women, marriage, friendship, and death. Translated by Geoffrey Skelton. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.

Records the Swiss novelist-playwright's experiences, observations, and ruminations in the cities of Europe immediately after World War II, preserving his thoughts about shell-shocked people and cities, the significance of war itself, and his own future as man and writer

Product Description: A stranger walks out of a bar an is later found dead at the wheel of his car. The narrator creates the story of this man-or, rather, two stories, based on the two personae that he has imagined. One of these is named Enderlin; the other, Gantenbein...read more

Product Description: Biedermann und die Brandstifter: Ein Lehrstück ohne Lehre mit einem Nachspiel edited by Paul Kurt Ackerman 1958 Softcover 8 x 5 1/4 inches, 198 pages including vocabulary section at the end of the book Houghton Mifflin, Boston