I'm Not Stiller by Frisch, Max

I'm Not Stiller (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781564784506)

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I'm Not Stiller by Frisch, Max

I'm Not Stiller

$15.95
I'm Not Stiller by Frisch, Max

I'm Not Stiller

$15.95
Format: Paperback
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A renowned novel of self-deceit and self-acceptance.

Arrested and imprisoned in a small Swiss town, a prisoner begins this book with an exclamation: "I'm not Stiller!" He claims that his name is Jim White, that he has been jailed under false charges and under the wrong identity. To prove he is who he claims to be, he confesses to three unsolved murders and recalls in great detail an adventuresome life in America and Mexico among cowboys and peasants, in back alleys and docks. He is consumed by "the morbid impulse to convince," but no one believes him. This is a harrowing account part Kafka, part Camus of the power of self-deception and the freedom that ultimately lies in self-acceptance. Simultaneously haunting and humorous, I'm Not Stiller has come to be recognized as "one of the major post-war works of fiction" and a masterpiece of German literature.



Author: Max Frisch
ISBN-10: 1564784509
ISBN-13: 9781564784506
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2006
Pages: 377
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.70w x 1.05d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 01/01/2007 pg. 166
By Max Frisch
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Max Frisch (1911-1991) was born in Zurich, Switzerland before the First World War and was a soldier in the Second. In the interwar years, he traveled throughout Eastern and Central Europe as a journalist. After serving as a gunner on the Austrian and Italian borders, he followed in his father's footsteps and became an architect. These experiences helped forge the moral consciousness and the concern for human freedom that mark his writing. The author of I'm Not Stiller, Homo Faber, and The Man in the Holocene, and the winner of the Jerusalem Prize, the Heinrich Heine Prize, and Neustadt International Prize for Literature among other honors, Frisch was one of Europe's most important postwar writers.

Michael Bullock (1918-2008) was a British translator, poet, novelist, and the principal English translator of Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch.

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