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Sketchbook 1966-1971 - by Max Frisch (Paperback)

Sketchbook 1966-1971 - by  Max Frisch (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Stories, authobiography, impressions, interviews, and reflections on a variety of topics from politics to women, marriage, friendship, and death. Translated by Geoffrey Skelton. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>A work of exceptional range, by the noted author of "I'm Not Stiller," this "sketchbook" combines a fascinating variety of material, part fictional, part autobiographical, part Socratic. It constitutes a new art form, immensely stimulating through its shifts of prism, including: <P>A series of startling questions that probe attitudes toward marriage, women, friendship, property, death, and so on (Are you afraid of the poor? Why not?) <P>Interrogations about the use of violence for political ends <P>Reports on a society for self-determined euthanasia <P>A number of short stories <P>Impressions of trips abroad, two to Russia, two to America (the last of which describes lunch at the White House with Henry Kissinger) <P>Recollections of meetings with Bertolt Brecht as well as a series of candid portraits of Gunter Grass, before and after fame. <P>Frisch, a Swiss, considers contemporary society with the mind of a highly intelligent, observant, and troubled liberal, sharply, wryly, reflectively. <P>Hailed as a masterpiece by German critics, the book became an instant and long-lived best-seller in the original edition.

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