Frisch, Max
Frisch, Max ( 1911 – 91 ),Swiss playwright, diarist, and novelist, also a qualified architect. His best-known plays are Biedermann und die Brandstifter (originally written for radio: The Fire-Raisers, 1958 ), a satire on the passivity of the middle class as represented by the man who tolerates, even abets, criminal arson in his own home, and Andorra ( 1961 ). The novel Homo Faber ( 1957 ) concerns the helplessness of a technologist to control the events of his life. Coincidences which defy statistical analysis pursue him like the Furies in a Greek tragedy. From the 1960s onwards Frisch published several short stories and essays of an autobiographical nature. His diaries, some previously published, appeared as Tagebuch 1946–49 ( 1950 ) and Tagebuch 1966–71 ( 1972 ).
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