An Answer from the Silence
Author | Max Frisch |
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Original title | Antwort aus der Stille |
Translator | Mike Mitchell |
Language | German |
Publisher | Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt |
Publication date | 1937 |
Publication place | Germany |
Published in English | 2011 |
Pages | 130 |
An Answer from the Silence: A Story from the Mountains (German: Antwort aus der Stille: Eine Erzählung aus den Bergen) is a 1937 novel by the Swiss writer Max Frisch. It tells the story of a young man who escapes to the Swiss Alps ten days before his wedding.
Reception
[edit]The book was reviewed in Publishers Weekly in 2011: "Infused with a post-WWI despair at the human condition, Frisch (1911-1991) refused this early piece's inclusion in his collected works in the 1970s, having burned the original manuscript in the woods in 1937. It seems a pity that this earnest and unusual book, in a crisp translation by Mitchell, has been denied us until now."[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Staff writer (2011-05-02). "Fiction Review: An Answer from the Silence: A Story from the Mountains by Max Frisch". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2012-03-14.