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A CompAnion to the Works of mAx frisCh Olaf bErwald EditEd by A Companion to the Works of Max Frisch BBeerrwwaalldd..iinndddd ii 99//33//22001133 55::4411::1188 PPMM Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture Camden House Companion Volumes The Camden House Companions provide well-informed and up-to-date critical commentary on the most significant aspects of major works, periods, or literary figures. The Companions may be read profitably by the reader with a general interest in the subject. For the benefit of student and scholar, quotations are provided in the original language. BBeerrwwaalldd..iinndddd iiii 99//33//22001133 55::4411::5566 PPMM A Companion to the Works of Max Frisch Edited by Olaf Berwald Rochester, New York BBeerrwwaalldd..iinndddd iiiiii 99//33//22001133 55::4411::5566 PPMM Copyright © 2013 by the Editor and Contributors All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation, no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded, or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. First published 2013 by Camden House Camden House is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Inc. 668 Mt. Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620, USA www.camden-house.com and of Boydell & Brewer Limited PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK www.boydellandbrewer.com ISBN-13: 978-1-57113-418-9 ISBN-10: 1-57113-418-2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A companion to the works of Max Frisch / edited by Olaf Berwald. pages cm. — (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-1-57113-418-9 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 1-57113-418-2 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Frisch, Max, 1911–1991—Criticism and interpretation. I. Berwald, Olaf, editor of compilation. PT2611.R814Z638 2013 838'.91209—dc23 2013023188 This publication is printed on acid-free paper. Printed in the United States of America. BBeerrwwaalldd..iinndddd iivv 99//33//22001133 55::4411::5566 PPMM Contents Acknowledgments vii Note on the Abbreviations ix Introduction: Max Frisch in the Twenty-First Century 1 Olaf Berwald 1: Max Frisch’s Early Plays 10 Walter Schmitz 2: Spielraum in Max Frisch’s Graf Öderland and Don Juan: Transparency as Mode of Performance 23 Klaus van den Berg 3: Max Frisch’s Biedermann und die Brandstifter and Die große Wut des Philipp Hotz 39 Amanda Charitina Boyd 4: Max Frisch’s Andorra: Balancing Act between Pattern and Particular 58 Caroline Schaumann and Frank Schaumann 5: Eternal Recurrence in Life and Death in Max Frisch’s Late Plays 72 John D. Pizer 6: Max Frisch’s Early Fiction 91 Margit Unser 7: From Life to Literature: Max Frisch’s Tagebücher 105 Céline Letawe 8: “Writing in order to be a stranger to oneself”: Max Frisch’s Stiller 125 Beatrice Sandberg BBeerrwwaalldd..iinndddd vv 99//33//22001133 55::4411::5566 PPMM VviI C ONTENTS 9: Cybernetic Flow, Analogy, and Probability in 140 Max Frisch’s Homo Faber Paul A. Youngman 10: The Ends of Blindness in Max Frisch’s Mein Name sei Gantenbein 156 Olaf Berwald 11: Max Frisch’s Montauk. Eine Erzählung 172 Ruth Vogel-Klein 12: Man, Culture, and Nature in Max Frisch’s Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän 197 Walter Obschlager 13: “My life as a man. Everyman”: Max Frisch’s Blaubart. Erzählung 211 Daniel de Vin 14: Max Frisch’s Essays and Speeches 220 Régine Battiston Frisch’s Major Works 229 Select Bibliography 231 Notes on the Contributors 233 Index 237 BBeerrwwaalldd..iinndddd vvii 99//33//22001133 55::4411::5566 PPMM Acknowledgments IW OULD LIKE TO THANK the contributors whose perceptive essays will stimulate further Frisch research in the twenty-first century. Thanks are also due to the anonymous readers at Camden House. Working with Jim Walker, Camden House’s editorial director, has been an immense privi- lege, and I am deeply grateful to him for his encouragement and intel- lectual generosity. O. B. Kennesaw, Georgia July 2013 BBeerrwwaalldd..iinndddd vviiii 99//33//22001133 55::4411::5566 PPMM BBeerrwwaalldd..iinndddd vviiiiii 99//33//22001133 55::4411::5566 PPMM Note on the Abbreviations THROUGHOUT THIS VOLUME, citations from Frisch are predominantly to the following edition. Abbreviations of individual works are set up in the notes to each chapter as appropriate. GW = Max Frisch. Gesammelte Werke in zeitlicher Folge. Edited by Hans Mayer and Walter Schmitz. 2nd ed. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1986. BBeerrwwaalldd..iinndddd iixx 99//33//22001133 55::4411::5566 PPMM
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