An Answer from the Silence: A Story from the Mountains - Couverture souple

Frisch, Max

 
9780857427106: An Answer from the Silence: A Story from the Mountains
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ISBN 10 : 0857427105 ISBN 13 : 9780857427106
Editeur : Seagull Books London Ltd, 2019

Synopsis

This novel by esteemed Swiss writer Max Frisch is an exploration of the question: "Why don't we live when we know we're here just this one time, just one single, unrepeatable time in this unutterably magnificent world?!" This outcry against the emptiness of ordinary everyday life uttered by the hero of Frisch's book is countered by "an answer from the silence" he meets when face-to-face with death.

When An Answer from the Silence begins, the protagonist has just turned thirty and is engaged to be married and about to start work as a teacher. Frightened by the idea of settling down, he journeys to the Alps in a do-or-die effort to climb the unclimbed North Ridge, and by doing so prove he is not ordinary. But having reached the top he returns not in triumph, but in frostbitten shock, having come dangerously close to death.

This highly personal early novel reflects a crisis in Frisch's own life, and perhaps because of this intimate connection, he refused to allow it to be included in his Collected Works in the 1970s. Now available in English, this distinctive book will thrill fans of Frisch's other works.

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À propos des auteurs

Max Frisch (1911-91) was a giant of twentieth-century German literature, achieving fame as a novelist, playwright, diarist, and essayist. His works include Andorra and Man in the Holocene.



Mike Mitchell has worked as a literary translator since 1995. He was awarded the 1998 Schlegel-Tieck Prize for his translation of Herbert Rosendorfer's Letters Back to Ancient China. For Seagull Books, he has translated works by Ingeborg Bachmann, Max Frisch, Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Peter Handke, among others.

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Éditeur
Seagull Books London Ltd
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0857427105
ISBN 13 
9780857427106
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
136
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9781906497927: An Answer from the Silence: A Story from the Mountains

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1906497923 ISBN 13 :  9781906497927
Editeur : Seagull Books London Ltd, 2011
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