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
mad identity desire
All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.
laughter mean laughing
When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?
freedom men choices
The dignity of man is in free choice.
believe fate reckoning
I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
men light bridges
We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against it stop using bridges not built by nature.... No electric light bulbs, no engines, no atomic energy, no calculating machines, no anaesthetics-back to the jungle.
reflection views order
It is conceivable at least that a late generation, such as we presumably are, has particular need of the sketch, in order not to be strangled to death by inherited conceptions which preclude new births.... The sketch has direction, but no ending; the sketch as reflection of a view of life that is no longer conclusive, or is not yet conclusive.
house citizens levels
Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.
police soul world
There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.
men deception encounters
Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men.
accepting harder oneself
Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.
love god taken
Thou shalt not, it is said, make unto thee any graven image of God. The same commandment should apply when God is taken to mean the living part of every human being, the part that cannot be grasped. It is a sin that, however much it is committed against us, we almost continually commit ourselves--Except when we love.
horse differences language
The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.
men answers protection
A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.
men technology way
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.