CRITICISM

Butler, Michael. “Max Frisch's Man in the Holocene: An Interpretation.” World Literature Today 60, no. 4 (autumn 1986): 574-92.

Addresses autobiographical interpretations of Frisch's novel and asserts that Man in the Holocene can “be situated clearly in the tradition of a sober, contemporary humanism.”

Hanlin, Todd C. “The English Translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatt and Max Frisch: Evolution and Evaluation.” Translation Review 40 (1992): 30-43.

Assesses English translations of the works of Dürrenmatt and Frisch.

Latta, Alan. “The Nature and Variety of Signifying Elements in Max Frisch's Novel Homo faber: An Approach.” Germanic Review 64, no. 4 (fall 1989): 146-57.

Investigates the symbolism in Homo faber.

———. “Correction.” Germanic Review 65, no. 2 (spring 1990): 88-90.

Corrected version of Latta's fall 1989 essay.

Additional coverage of Frisch's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Concise Dictionary of World Literary Biography, Vol. 2; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 85-88, 134; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 32, 74; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 3, 9, 14, 18, 32, 44; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 69, 124; DISCovering Authors Modules: Dramatists and Novelists; European Writers, Vol. 13; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2; and Reference Guide to World Literature, Ed. 2.