Stiller

Stiller or not Stiller? A narrator is a prisoner claiming that he has a different identity than that all others assume he has… ‘So you admit, Herr Stiller, that your American passport was a fake?’‘My name’s not Stiller!’‘I have been informed,’ he said quietly, as though I had not shouted, ‘that you a Leggi tutto

Many know themselves, only a few also manage to accept themselves. Nothing is harder than to accept oneself! To which degree can we master and reconstruct our own identity? Can we deliberately shed off a undesirable, hardly bearable identity like a snake’s skin and choose to restage another one t

"this lifelong striving to be different from the way one is created this great difficulty in accepting oneself, I knew it and saw only my own longing from outside, saw the absurdity of our yearning to be different from what we are...” Max Frisch’s I’m Not Stiller begins with the protagonist’s (White/ Leggi tutto

There are a lot of excellent reviews, so I’ll make this one fairly short. [revised 6/12/22] A man believed to be Stiller, a missing sculptor, is in a Swiss prison for vague reasons unknown to the reader at first. He has returned to Switzerland after an absence of nine years. He says he’s an American Leggi tutto

Ο Μαξ Φρις δεν είναι πραγματικά ένας μυθιστοριογράφος ιδεών. Είναι σπουδαίος δραματουργός ιδεών. Ζούμε και εξακολουθούμε να βιώνουμε τις ιδέες μας μέσα απο την καθημερινότητα μας προσπαθώντας να κατανοήσουμε κάθε νόημα αυτών των καθημερινών συνηθειών και καταναγκασμών. Η ανθρώπινη τάση που αποτυπώνετ Leggi tutto

کتاب خوبی بود فقط یک مقدار کند پیش می‌رفت. بخشی از یادداشت مترجم برایم جالب بود: (ترجمه برایم "کار" نیست، وظیفه نیست که باید بد یا خوب به پایان برسانم تا با دریافت وجهی (کم یا زیاد) روزگار بگذرانم. از ترجمه لذت می‌برم، کتابی را که انتخاب کرده‌ام با جان و دل، با همه‌ی توان ترجمه می‌کنم) ************ Leggi tutto

- What’s all this, officer? - Anatol Stiller, I am arresting you for tax evasion, unpaid parking tickets, voting ironically and travelling with a fake passport. - Officer this is a big mistake – I am not this guy Stiller, my name is Paul Bryant, look, just like it says there. - But sir, your passport i Leggi tutto