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I'm Not Stiller Paperback – November 1, 2006
by Max Frisch (Author), Michael Bullock (Translator)

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I'm Not Stiller

Brand: Dalkey Archive

Current Stock: 2

UPC: 9781564784506

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Authors: Max Frisch (Author), Michael Bullock (Translator)

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dalkey Archive Press (November 1, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 377 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1564784509
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1564784506

A renowned novel of self-deceit and self-acceptance.

Arrested and imprisoned in a small Swiss town, a prisoner begins this book with an exclamation: "I'm not Stiller!" He claims that his name is Jim White, that he has been jailed under false charges and under the wrong identity. To prove he is who he claims to be, he confesses to three unsolved murders and recalls in great detail an adventuresome life in America and Mexico among cowboys and peasants, in back alleys and docks. He is consumed by "the morbid impulse to convince," but no one believes him. This is a harrowing account part Kafka, part Camus of the power of self-deception and the freedom that ultimately lies in self-acceptance. Simultaneously haunting and humorous, I'm Not Stiller has come to be recognized as "one of the major post-war works of fiction" and a masterpiece of German literature.

Review

"Frisch is a great, and even an inspiring, writer, because he gives us the unique sense that the act of analysis is a passionate act, impelled by our fear of the world's dissolution and our knowledge of our own fragility." —Newsday

"We live out our ideas through our daily lives, after all, and [Frisch] grasps every nuance of those daily habits and compulsions. It is the tension between these details and the larger ambitions — so grandly imagined, so absurdly lived out — that makes the novel work." —New York Times

About the Author

Michael Bullock, himself a novelist and poet, was for many years the official translator of Max Frisch. His translations of books and plays from French and German now number close to 200 and have received many awards.

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