Publication

2011 - Seagull Books

Language

English

Word Count

29,500 words, Guess

Page Count

118 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781906497927
  • ISBN-101906497923
  • Library of Congress Control Number2012337458
  • OCLC Control Number670480488
  • Better World Books9781906497927
and 2 more

Classifications

  • LCCPT2611.R814A13 2011
  • LCCPT2611.R814 A13 2011
  • LCCPT2611.R814 A7513 2011

Description

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, the protagonist has just turned thirty and is engaged to be married and about to start work as a teacher.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Answer from the Silence: A Story from the MountainsSeagull Books2011-01-01

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