{"product_id":"sketchbook-1966-1971-paperback","title":"Sketchbook 1966-1971 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMax Frisch\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStories, authobiography, impressions, interviews, and reflections on a variety of topics from politics to women, marriage, friendship, and death. Translated by Geoffrey Skelton. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA work of exceptional range, by the noted author of \"I'm Not Stiller,\" this \"sketchbook\" combines a fascinating variety of material, part fictional, part autobiographical, part Socratic. It constitutes a new art form, immensely stimulating through its shifts of prism, including: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA series of startling questions that probe attitudes toward marriage, women, friendship, property, death, and so on (Are you afraid of the poor? Why not?) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterrogations about the use of violence for political ends \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReports on a society for self-determined euthanasia \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA number of short stories \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImpressions of trips abroad, two to Russia, two to America (the last of which describes lunch at the White House with Henry Kissinger) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecollections of meetings with Bertolt Brecht as well as a series of candid portraits of Gunter Grass, before and after fame. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrisch, a Swiss, considers contemporary society with the mind of a highly intelligent, observant, and troubled liberal, sharply, wryly, reflectively. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHailed as a masterpiece by German critics, the book became an instant and long-lived best-seller in the original edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.78 x 8.54 x 5.54 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 31, 1983\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45254674088038,"sku":"9780156827478","price":29.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/YjQ0K1YycHQ3TjJCL0YrYnZrWGZGUT09.webp?v=1773618778","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/sketchbook-1966-1971-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}