Max Frisch
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Max Rudolf Frisch was a Swiss playwright and novelist. Frisch's works focused on problems of identity, individuality, responsibility, morality, and political commitment. The use of irony is a signific
Frisch c. 1974
Frisch's 10-metre-high diving board at Max-Frisch-Bad
Zürich Playhouse (Schauspielhaus Zürich)
Bertolt Brecht in 1934. Brecht exerted considerable influence on Frisch's early work.
Homo Faber (novel)
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Homo Faber: A Report is a novel by Swiss author Max Frisch, first published in Germany in 1957. An English translation by Michael Bullock was published in Britain in 1959. The novel is written as a fi
Max Frisch
…January 1955 he closed his architectural practice, becoming officially a full-time freelance writer. At the end of 1955 Frisch started work on his novel, Homo Faber which would be published in 1957. It concerns an engineer who views life through a "technical" ultra-rational prism. Homo Faber was chosen as a study…
First edition of English translation book cover, 1959