Gantenbein - Paperback

by Max Frisch (Author), Michael Bullock (Translator)

A playfully postmodern novel exploring questions of identity from a major Swiss writer.

A man walks out of a bar and is later found dead at the wheel of his car. On the basis of a few overheard remarks and his own observations, the narrator of this novel imagines the story of this stranger, or rather two alternative stories based on two identities the narrator has invented for him, one under the name of Enderlin, the other under the name Gantenbein.

Author Biography

Max Frisch (1911-91) was a giant of twentieth-century German literature, achieving fame as a novelist, playwright, diarist, and essayist. His works include Andorra and Man in the Holocene. Michael Bullock (1918-2008) was a British translator, poet, novelist, and the principal English translator of Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch.