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Drafts for a Third Sketchbook (Hardcover)
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Drafts for a Third Sketchbook (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R591
Discovery Miles 5 910
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New York...I HATE IT...I LOVE IT...I DON'T KNOW...". These are the
reflections of Max Frisch, writing from his apartment in the Big
Apple near the end of the twentieth century. Beginning in 1946 and
continuing until his death at the age of eighty, the man whom many
see as Switzerland's greatest writer kept a series of sketchbooks
to record his reactions to events of the time and people he
encountered in his daily life. Neither a commonplace book nor a
diary, these volumes contain the seeds for many of Frisch's most
famous works - including Homo Faber, I'm Not Stiller, and Man in
the Holocene - as well as his cynical meditations, fictions,
incidents, conversations, meetings, newspaper headlines, and dark
fantasies - anything, in short, that the author found significant.
Drafts for a Third Sketchbook treats the reader to an even more
personal document. Unpublished at the time of Frisch's death, this
collection was edited by Peter von Matt, president of the Max
Frisch Foundation, with an eye toward expanding our knowledge of
this legendary writer's last days. Ranging from a couple of
sentences to several pages, the sketches collected in this volume
recall the United States of the Reagan years and the author's own
growing sense of age as both the threat of nuclear war and some of
his most treasured friendships pass on. Representing an unusually
personal vista onto the world as Frisch knew it, this is a
wonderful self-portrait of an extraordinary intelligence.
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