A new translation of one of the earliest volumes of Max Frisch's
innovative notebooks. Throughout his life, the great Swiss
playwright and novelist Max Frisch (1911-1991) kept a series of
diaries, or sketchbooks, as they came to be known in English. First
published in English translation in the 1970s, these sketchbooks
played a major role in establishing Frisch as, according to the New
York Times, "the most innovative, varied and hard-to-categorize of
all major contemporary authors." His diaries, said the Times, "read
like novels and his best novels are written like diaries." Now
Seagull Books presents the first unabridged English translation of
Sketchbooks, 1946-1949 in a new translation by Simon Pare. This
edition reinstates material omitted from the 1977 edition,
including a screenplay for an unmade film. In this first volume,
which covers the years 1946 to 1949, Frisch chronicles the
intellectual and material situation in postwar Europe from the
vantage point of a citizen of a neutral, German-speaking country.
His notes on travels to the scarred cities of Germany, to Austria,
France, Italy, Prague, Wroclaw, and Warsaw paint a complex and
stimulating picture of a continent emerging from the rubble as new
fault lines are drawn between East and West. As Frisch completes
his final architectural projects and garners early success as a
writer, he reflects on theater, language, and writing, and he
sketches the outlines of plays, including The Fire Raisers and
Count OEderland. Whatever experience he chronicles in the
sketchbook-whether it's a Bastille Day party, an Italian fish
market, or a tightrope display amid the ruins of Frankfurt or an
afternoon by Lake Zurich with Bertolt Brecht, to take just a few
examples-his keen dramatist's eye immerses the reader in the
setting while also probing the deeper significance and motivations
underlying the scene. This new translation will serve to draw out
the immediacy and contemporary quality of Frisch's observations
from the shadow of his status as a classic author, bringing his
work to life for a new audience.
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