An Answer from the Silence: A Story from the Mountains

by Max Frisch

Book Overview

This novel by esteemed Swiss writer Max Frisch is an exploration of the question: "Why don't we live when we know we're here just this one time, just one single, unrepeatable time in this unutterably magnificent world? " This outcry against the emptiness of ordinary everyday life uttered by the hero of Frisch's book is countered by "an answer from the silence" he meets when face-to-face with death.

When An Answer from the Silence begins,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857427105
• ISBN13: 9780857427106
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 8.0"