Max Frisch, Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän [Man in the Holocene]

Judith Ricker-Abderhalden (University of Arkansas)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.2: German-language Writing and Culture: Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, 800-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1979

Places

Switzerland (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Story

Resources

Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän [Man in the Holocene, 1979] the penultimate text by the twentieth-century Swiss dramatist and novelist Max Frisch, is at the same time his most radical experiment with narrative prose and a return to straightforward narration. Readers intrigued by the intimate “autobiographical” dimension of Montauk (1975, q.v.), with its May-December dalliance with a young American woman, its guilty references to past relationships, its acknowledgement of impotence, may at first be underwhelmed by a story about an elderly widower coping with a soggy week in late spring when his Swiss-Italian village is cut off from the r…

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Citation: Ricker-Abderhalden, Judith. "Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 10 April 2006 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=13988, accessed 23 April 2024.]

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