Max Frisch, Biografie: Ein Spiel [Biography: A Game]

Judith Ricker-Abderhalden (University of Arkansas)
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After an absence from the stage of seven years, Max Frisch made a triumphant return with

Biografie: Ein Spiel

[

Biography: A Game

, 1967], a play many consider to be the more successful realization of themes and techniques already employed in his 1964 experimental novel

Mein Name sei Gantenbein

[

A Wilderness of Mirrors

]. The author's earliest major themes of identity, marriage, fidelity, guilt, and self-deception are now augmented by additional themes such as aging, impotence, and illness which will take on added significance in later works (

Tagebuch 1966-1971

[

Diary 1966-1971

],

Montauk

,

Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän

[

Man in the Holocene

]). What sets

Biografie

apart from other texts in this large and complex oeuvre is the crafting of an experimental dramaturgic form that re-invents the…

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Citation: Ricker-Abderhalden, Judith. "Biografie: Ein Spiel". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 February 2007 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=13984, accessed 19 March 2024.]

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