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
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.
writing firsts lines
If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.
real real-men men
I live, like every real man, in my work.
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.
You can put anything into words, except your own life.
easy ifs
If the going is getting too easy, maybe you're going downhill!
people workers
We asked for workers. We got people instead.
freedom party political
In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.
progress delight shelter
Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.
real identity alive
A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive.... It's difficult to say what makes a life a real life.... You could also say it depends on a person being identical with himself.
reality
I have no words for my reality.
memories film moments
When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.
wisdom science technology
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
believe simple camouflage
A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.