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by Max Frisch (Author)
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  • Paperback: 228 pages
  • Publisher: Harcourt Publishers Ltd; Reissue edition (Sep 1971)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0156421356
  • ISBN-13: 978-0156421355
  • Product Dimensions: 20 x 13.6 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 318,428 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Loneliness and despair invade the world of an engineer who comes to realize that he has failed as a friend, husband, and father.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Technology, Life, Love and Irony, 19 Feb 1999
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This report is a difficult lovestory. The dry life of a technologist faints more and more during a love-relationship with his own daughter. The world of probability and dull nature changes into the world of "family" and love, death and warm rain. Max Frisch did already a wonderful job in the original, german version, but even translated it will enchant you. I give this book 5 stars, because it is "eyeglue" and won't let you go. It made it happen that I can see the nature in a different way and it is still influencing my life. The end was completely shocking, but it was the right one. This book is recommended for people who want to read an experience and not just a pulp pamphlet.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful story. . . with an alarming twist, 20 Feb 1998
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Like the previous reviewer, I read this book for an undergraduate German literature class and I found Frisch's writing wonderfully comic, but not without its disturbing points. One thing that is lacking in the English translation is Frisch's wonderful critiques of the "American Way of Life." So, I definately recomend trying the German version if at all possible. I also agree with the previous writer that the movie is a great disappointment. It changes the story into a pure love story and dismisses the importance of Walter Faber's transformation into someone, who for the first time in his life allows himself to truly live and love.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Terrifying exploration of patriarchy and sin, 14 Aug 1997
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The novel opens with the author, a somewhat callous, but forthright, proud and fatherly man, taking off from New York City in a snowstorm. His plane crash lands in the Mexican desert, where he is stranded for nearly a week, playing chess in the shadow of the tailfin. This is just the beginning of his Heart of Darkness journey, for soon he has interrupted his business trip to join a comrade into the depths of languor in the jungle, where they eventually find an old friend, who has just hung himself. The author then sets out on his homeward journey to Europe via steamer from New York and meets a young woman who completely shatters his cold engineering world. The book is at first curious, and later full of suspense and agony. Gripping and thoroughly depressing conclusion.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great modern classic
I studied this for German A-level in Switzerland and it's a great novel about the illusoriness of our control over our environment and the challenge of living generally... Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars The Techniker finds his soul
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