Frisch, Max (1911-1991), a Swiss author, became one of the leading writers in the German-speaking world after World War II. His novels and plays concern the problem of identity and the question of how individuals can find their true self.
According to Frisch, the images imposed on us by others, and the images we in turn impose on others, falsify and destroy the authenticity of human personality and individual existence. In his novels I’m Not Stiller (1954), Homo Faber (1957), and Wilderness of Mirrors (1964), Frisch showed the shallowness of how individuals view others and the inability to understand one’s own identity. Frisch’s plays, notably Don Juan and the Love for Geometry (1953), The Firebugs (1957-1958), and Andorra (1961), deal with the same themes. Frisch was born in Zurich.
