I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch
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.
"Readers cannot but feel the force of what remains one of the most important novels of the post-war years"--Times Literary Supplement
Max Frisch, a writer, playwright, diarist, and essayist who was born in Zurich in 1911, was one of the giants of twentieth-century writing. He died in 1991, the same year Volker Schlondorff turned Homo Faber into the critically acclaimed film Voyager, starring Sam Shepard.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781564784506 |
| ISBN 10 | 1564784509 |
| Title | I'm Not Stiller |
| Author | Max Frisch |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Dalkey Archive Press |
| Year published | 2006-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 377 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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