Max Frisch
Max Frisch
Max Rudolf Frischwas a Swiss playwright and novelist. Frisch's works focused on problems of identity, individuality, responsibility, morality, and political commitment. His use of irony is a significant feature of his post-war publications. Frisch was one of the founders of Gruppe Olten. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1986...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 May 1911
CountrySwitzerland
bear begins cannot
He cannot bear old men's jokes. That is not new. But now he begins to think of them himself.
time honesty doe
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
jealousy comparison
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
easy ifs
If the going is getting too easy, maybe you're going downhill!
technology white race
The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living.
true-life stories meaning-of-life
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
horse differences language
The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.
military civil-war gestures
Stillertook part in the Spanish Civil WarIt is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined--a rather romantic Communism, such as was common among bourgeois intellectuals at that time.
greatest-fear repetition
My greatest fear: repetition.
death attitude wine
THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. Even what they eat and drink, these palefaces who don't know what wine istheir uglinesstheir pink sausage skin, horrible, they only live because there is penicillin,... the world as an Americanized vacuumtheir fake health, their fake youthfulnessthe way they use cosmetics even on corpses, their whole pornographic attitude to death.
ownership concerned
There is no such thing, as far as I'm concerned, as ownership in love.
marriage crosses shows
The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.
marriage hands defeat
Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.
want
The older you get the simpler you want to make it.