Relf Kieser, Max Frisch: Das literarische Tagebuch: Book Review

Authors

John F. Holley, Old Dominion Univerisiy

Keywords

Die Wahrheit, diaries, Swiss literature

Abstract

The significance of Max Frisch's Diaries as literature is not dependent on a formal satisfaction of structural norms: it is not a art that strives for the perfection of a traditional model, but rather an attempt to move through a linguistic game ("ein linguistisches Spiel") toweard ther boundries of the expressible - toward that point at which, as Rolf Kieser puts it, the reader recognizes the significance of the white spaces between the words ("das Weisse zwischen den Worten"). In his book Max Frisch: Das literarische Tagebuch Professor Kieser bring calls " diaristisch," to the fore and, in a examination of Frisch's works, shows to what an extent the latter's apparent preference for the Tagebach motif is an attempt of a storyteller to face a question whose formal simplicity belies its ethical urgency: "Erzahlen aber wie?"

Recommended Citation

Holley, John F. (1976) "Relf Kieser, Max Frisch: Das literarische Tagebuch: Book Review," Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter: Vol. 12: Iss. 1, Article 5.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_newsletter/vol12/iss1/5