Sketchbook 1966-1971

A 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: <P>A series of startling questions that probe attitudes toward marriage women friendship property death and so on (Are you afraid of the poor? Why not?) <P>Interrogations about the use of violence for political ends <P>Reports on a society for self-determined euthanasia <P>A number of short stories <P>Impressions of trips abroad two to Russia two to America (the last of which describes lunch at the White House with Henry Kissinger) <P>Recollections of meetings with Bertolt Brecht as well as a series of candid portraits of Gunter Grass before and after fame. <P>Frisch a Swiss considers contemporary society with the mind of a highly intelligent observant and troubled liberal sharply wryly reflectively. <P>Hailed as a masterpiece by German critics the book became an instant and long-lived best-seller in the original edition.