Frisch, Max (Vol. 3) - Frisch, Max 1911–
Frisch, Max 1911–
Frisch is a Swiss novelist and playwright, best known for Stiller and Homo Faber.
[When] Frisch is at his best, as he is in Die Chinesische Mauer (The Chinese Wall) and Biedermann und die Brandstifter (Mr. Biedermann and the Arsonists [published in English as The Firebugs]), there is no better dramatic author alive today….
Frisch … writes plays about whatever happens to interest him at the moment, and as he is always passionately involved in the situations and characters he creates, the quality of his plays tends to fluctuate sharply…. With Frisch we are on the inside, we are involved, we identify…. Frisch at his best rouses in us at least the terror part of the Aristotelian formula. Although lacking a common, basic theme, Frisch's plays do have an idea that shows up in all of them: that men learn nothing from experience….
The psychological problem that fascinates Frisch...
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