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Homo Faber by Max Frisch
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The novel tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who believes in rational, calculated world. Strange events undermine his security - an emergency landing in a Mexican... -
Gantenbein by Max Frisch 9781803091877
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.53A playfully postmodern novel exploring questions of identity from a major Swiss writer. A man walks out of a bar and is later found dead at the wheel of his car. On the basis of a few overheard... -
Andorra by Max Frisch 9780413305107
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Man in the Holocene by Max Frisch
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.96A stunning tour de force, Man in the Holocene constructs a powerful vision of our place in the world by combining the banality of an aging man's lonely inner life and the objective facts he finds in... -
From the Berlin Journal by Max Frisch
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55Max Frisch (1911 91) was a giant of twentieth-century German literature. When Frisch moved into a new apartment in Berlin's Sarrazinstrasse, he began keeping a journal, which he came to call the... -
Zurich Transit Max Frisch 9780857428189
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.63This screenplay by Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch was developed from an episode in his 1964 novel Gantenbein, or A Wilderness of Mirrors. At the center of both works is Theo Ehrismann, a... -
Sketchbook, 1966–1971 by Max Frisch
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.24A fresh translation of the second volume of Max Frisch's diaries. By the time Swiss author Max Frisch published the second volume of his diaries or sketchbooks, he had achieved international... -
I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch 9780156849906
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £20.97Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Biography - A Game Max Frisch 9781803092157
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.30A reissue of a comic and tragic play that asks just how much of our life we could-or would-change if we got another chance. In this play by Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch, a middle-aged... -
Drafts for a Third Sketchbook by Max Frisch
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £14.30New York...I HATE IT...I LOVE IT...I DON'T KNOW...". These are the reflections of Max Frisch, writing from his apartment in the Big Apple near the end of the twentieth century. Beginning in 1946 and... -
Homo Faber by Max Frisch 9780544310582
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.54Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Biedermann und die Brandstifter by Max Frisch
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Includes the full German text, accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.About the AuthorMax Frisch,... -
From the Berlin Journal Max Frisch 9781803092140
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55The daily journal of a giant of German literature, touching subjects ranging from everyday life to the political and social conditions in East Germany as viewed from West Berlin. Max Frisch... -
Sketchbooks, 1946-1949 Max Frisch 9780857429766
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.17A new translation of one of the earliest volumes of Max Frisch's innovative notebooks. Throughout his life, the great Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch (1911-1991) kept a series of... -
Sketchbook 1966-1971 by Max Frisch 9780156827478
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156827478Author Max FrischFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint -
Novels, Plays, Essays by Max Frisch 9780826403223
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An Answer from the Silence: A Story from the Mountains Max Frisch 9780857427106
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.47This 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... -
An Answer from the Silence: A Story from the Mountains Max Frisch 9781906497927
RRP: £14.50Booksplease Price: £13.54This 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... -
The Ecological Voice in Recent German-Swiss Prose by Andrew Liston 9783034302180
RRP: £43.40Booksplease Price: £39.38This study focuses on the five most prominent Swiss writers of the last thirty-five years whose work features ecological crisis. It is an analysis of five narratologically divergent styles, ranging... -
Geneva, Zurich, Basel: History, Culture, and National Identity by Nicolas Bouvier
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Recognized by historians and politicians as a model for European unity, Switzerland is nonetheless a difficult country to understand as a whole. Whereas individual Swiss cities have strong identities... -
Rules of the Game in Social Relationships by Josef Pieper 9781587317408
Booksplease Price: £16.75Josef Pieper's readers become accustomed to the clarity of thought and expression in his writing-in combination with the impression he gives of being profoundly in touch with fundamentals. His... -
Trueman and the Arsonists by Simon Stephens 9781350446410
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86But the best disguise, I find, is always the absolute bollock naked truth. It's really strange. Nobody believes it. This is an amoral morality play. It's also got songs in it. Fires keep... -
Rules of the Game in Social Relationships by Josef Pieper
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £8.20Josef Pieper's readers become accustomed to the clarity of thought and expression in his writing-in combination with the impression he gives of being profoundly in touch with fundamentals. His... -
Correspondence by Paul Celan 9780857426420
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.83Paul Celan (1920-70) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust; many of his poems, admired for their spare, precise diction, deal directly with its stark themes. Austrian writer Ingeborg... -
Alone in Berlin Alistair Beaton (Author) 9781350172401
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.49A gripping portrait of life in wartime Berlin and a vividly theatrical study of how paranoia can warp a society gripped by the fear of the night-time knock on the door. Based on true events, Hans... -
The Redemption of Things: Collecting and Dispersal in German Realism and Modernism by Samuel Frederick 9781501761560
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £24.76Collecting is usually understood as an activity that bestows permanence, unity, and meaning on otherwise scattered and ephemeral objects. In The Redemption of Things, Samuel Frederick emphasizes that... -
The Redemption of Things: Collecting and Dispersal in German Realism and Modernism by Samuel Frederick 9781501761553
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £92.20Collecting is usually understood as an activity that bestows permanence, unity, and meaning on otherwise scattered and ephemeral objects. In The Redemption of Things, Samuel Frederick emphasizes that... -
The Caucasian Chalk Circle Bertolt Brecht 9781408126707
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.49The city burns in the heat of civil war and a servant girl sacrifices everything to protect an abandoned child. But when peace is finally restored, the boy's mother comes to claim him. Calling upon... -
War Diary by Ingeborg Bachmann 9780857425324
Booksplease Price: £12.30Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) is recognized as one of the most important novelists, poets, and playwrights of postwar German literature. As befitting such a versatile writer, her War... -
Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'An intense, courageous novel, equal to the best of Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett' The New York TimesPart detective novel, part love story, part psychoanalytic case study, Malina is a staggering... -
The Sea View Has Me Again: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness Patrick Wright 9781912248605
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.40The story of Uwe Johnson, one of Germany's greatest and most-influential post-war writers, and how he came to live and work in Sheerness, Kent in the 1970s. In 1974, a strange man called "Charles"...