From the Berlin journal / Max Frisch ; edited by Thomas Strässle ; with the cooperation of Margit Unser ; translated by Wieland Hoban.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frisch, Max, 1911-1991, author.

Contributor:

Strässle, Thomas, 1972- editor, writer of afterword.

Unser, Margit, editor.

Hoban, Wieland, translator.

Series:

Swiss list

The Swiss list

Standardized Title:

Aus dem Berliner Journal. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Frisch, Max, 1911-1991--Diaries.

Frisch, Max.

Frisch, Max, 1911-1991--Homes and haunts--Germany--Berlin.

Frisch, Max, 1911-1991.

Authors, Swiss--20th century--Diaries.

Authors, Swiss.

Germany--Berlin.

Homes.

Genre:

Diaries.

Physical Description:

220 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Seagull Books, 2017.

Language Note:

Translated from the German.

Summary:

Max Frisch (1911-91) was a giant of twentieth-century German literature. When Frisch moved into a new apartment in Berlin's Sarrazinstrasse, he began keeping a journal, which he came to call the Berlin Journal. A few years later, he emphasized in an interview that this was by no means a "scribbling book," but rather a book "fully composed." The journal is one of the great treasures of Frisch's literary estate, but the author imposed a retention period of twenty years from the date of his death because of the "private things" he noted in it. This work now marks the first publication of excerpts from Frisch's journal. Here, the unmistakable Frisch is back, full of doubt, with no illusions, and with a playfully sharp eye for the world. This work pulls from the years 1946-49 and 1966-71. Observations about the writer's everyday life stand alongside narrative and essayistic texts, as well as finely-drawn portraits of colleagues like Günter Grass, Uwe Johnson, Wolf Biermann, and Christa Wolf, among others. Its foremost quality, though, is the extraordinary acuity with which Frisch observed political and social conditions in East Germany while living in West Berlin.

Contents:

From notebook 1 (1973)

From notebook 2 (1973-74)

Notes

Afterword / Thomas Strässle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780857424334

0857424335

OCLC:

958798709