Andorra (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Max Frisch
- First Published: 1961
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Social criticism
- Time of Work: The 1950’s
- Setting: Andorra, an imaginary small state
- Genres: Social realism, Drama, Problem play, War drama, Parable
- Subjects: 1950’s, Discrimination, Europe or Europeans, Betrayal, Religion, Jews or Jewish life, War, Anti-Semitism, Truth, Carpentry or carpenters, Idealism, Soldiers
- Locales: Andorra
Characters Discussed
Andri, a twenty-year-old who was brought up in Andorra (not the small European country but a “model”) in the belief that he is a Jew whom his foster father, the teacher, rescued from persecution by the “blacks” across the border. Since then, the Andorrans have forced him into the role of an outsider and to behave like their stereotypical notion of a Jew—a rootless, greedy, lustful, heartless, oversensitive coward. Learning that he is not a Jew exacerbates his confusion and anguish. Having been ferreted out by the totalitarian “Jew-detector,”...
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