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
military civil-war gestures
Stillertook part in the Spanish Civil WarIt is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined--a rather romantic Communism, such as was common among bourgeois intellectuals at that time.
dying men owned since
Ever since the young men have owned motorcycles, incest has been dying out.
arranging experience knack technology
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
bear begins cannot
He cannot bear old men's jokes. That is not new. But now he begins to think of them himself.
death technology body
Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!
men civilization giving
It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.
death mistake technology
Technology as the knack of eliminating the world as resistance,... the technologist's worldlessness.... My mistake lay in the factthat we technologists try to live without death.
death attitude wine
THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. Even what they eat and drink, these palefaces who don't know what wine istheir uglinesstheir pink sausage skin, horrible, they only live because there is penicillin,... the world as an Americanized vacuumtheir fake health, their fake youthfulnessthe way they use cosmetics even on corpses, their whole pornographic attitude to death.
travel communication mean
Travelling, gentlemen, is medieval, today we have means of communication, not to speak of tomorrow and the day after, means of communication that bring the world into our homes, to travel from one place to another is atavistic.
losing
You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely
lovers knows
I know that I'm the happiest of lovers...
ownership concerned
There is no such thing, as far as I'm concerned, as ownership in love.
marriage crosses shows
The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.
marriage hands defeat
Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.