聯合國專家，高級工程師，滿世界飛來飛去進行技術援助的知識分子。
一個成功人士。一個擁有財富與“自由”的美國佬。
一部比英國同類型的《小世界》更有生氣的學者型小說——這一次的第一人稱不是文學教授，而是一個個玩世不恭的科學家。
值得一提的是，馬克斯·弗里施還寫過跟中國有關的作品。比如《Bin oder die Reise nach Peking》等等。這本書還被翻譯成其他語種出版，比如丹麥語的《Bin eller rejsen til Peking》，就是同一本書。
《中國長城》作者弗里施誕辰100週年
蘇黎世今年慶祝弗里施誕辰100週年
Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: 蘇黎世今年慶祝弗里施誕辰100週年
今年是已故瑞士知名作家馬克斯·弗里施（Max Frisch）誕辰100週年。他最後生活的城市蘇黎世舉辦了一系列的紀念活動，在當地掀起了一股"弗里施"熱。
"二戰後，聯合國派遣一個名叫法貝爾（Faber）的瑞士籍工程師，前往落後國家進行支援重建。他是一個強烈崇拜科技的人，努力著以科學改造落後地區。他以自己邏輯與概率主導的思想為傲，但在多次遠航的遊歷中，一次又一次的遭遇讓他開始反思生命的意義。
法貝爾的一生起伏很大，他在年輕時與懷有身孕的戀人分手，經歷了故友上吊自殺的悲慟。之後，他與一名年幼女子墜入愛河，這名姑娘卻不幸遭遇不測。法貝爾在生命最終的篇章裡，與她的舊愛重逢，才赫然驚覺自己曾與親身骨肉相愛......"
弗里施曾住在Berzona城一段時日Bildunterschrift: 弗里施曾住在Berzona城一段時日這樣的故事段落，發生在著名的德語小說《能幹的法貝爾》（Homo Faber）的章節裡。全書內容是其主人公法貝爾以第一人稱自述出來。書中形容，法貝爾是在年老得病登上手術台之前，以回溯的方式引領讀者走過其如夢般的人生。
這本小說於1957年出版，曾被翻譯成近30種語文，尖銳的嘲諷了戰後西方國家崇尚科技的觀念，並點出了其中所存在的分歧。其作者瑞士籍的馬克斯· 弗里施籍此書大大的奠定了在文學界的地位。與其他作品一樣，弗里施在《能幹的法貝爾》中特別強調了身份認同、責任、道德、整治承諾，也使到自己的形像變得份外鮮明出眾。
弗里施於1911年5月15日出生，於1991年4月4日病逝，享年80歲。今年是弗里施100週年的誕辰，蘇黎世斯特拉烏合夫博物院（StrauHof）從今年3月16日至9月4日，特別舉辦了以弗里施為名的展覽會，展出了其作品、有關於其生活的資料。
此外，瑞士當局也於日前發售價值20瑞郎的銀幣、面值1瑞郎的特種郵票，讓這名作家的支持者收藏。當局感念這名作家過去所作出的貢獻，留下了許許多多不朽的名作。
Berzona城裡一個為弗里施豎立的紀念碑。 Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Berzona城裡一個為弗里施豎立的紀念碑。據悉，弗里施生前曾擔任記者、建築師等職務，後來成了專職作家，出版了多部作品，包括名作《施蒂勒》（Stiller）。另外，他還有一些與與中國有所關係的作品，像是《賓或北京之旅》（Bin oder Die Reise nach Peking）、戲劇《中國長城》（Die Chinesische Mauer）。
值得一提的是，當局也在弗里施於蘇黎世的故居前掛了巨大的橫幅，寫著"1983-1991年這裡曾住著偉大的作家馬克斯·弗里施(1911-1991)"。他在他的書中不忘多次提及這個美麗的地方，現在在沒有他的日子裡，世人也不曾將他遺忘。
作者：Gudrun Stegen 編譯：蔡慶暉
責編：文山
Max Rudolf Frisch (May 15, 1911 – April 4, 1991) was a Swiss playwright and novelist, regarded as highly representative of German-language literature after World War II. In his creative works Frisch paid particular attention to issues relating to problems of human identity, individuality, responsibility, morality and political commitment.[1] His use of irony is a significant feature of his post-war publications. Frisch was a member of the Gruppe Olten.
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[edit] Life
Max Rudolf Frisch was born in 1911 in Zürich; the son of Franz Bruno Frisch (an architect) and Karolina Bettina Frisch (née Wildermuth). After studying at the Realgymnasium in Zurich, he enrolled at the University of Zurich in 1930, but had to abandon his studies in German literature owing to financial problems caused by the death of his father in 1932. Instead, he started working as a journalist and columnist for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), one of the major newspapers in Switzerland. With the NZZ he would entertain a lifelong ambivalent love-hate relationship, for his own views were in stark contrast to the conservative views promulgated by this newspaper. In 1933 he travelled through eastern and south-eastern Europe, and in 1935 he visited Germany for the first time.
From 1936 to 1941 he studied architecture at the ETH Zurich. His first and still best-known project was in 1942, when he won the invitation of tenders for the construction of a public swimming pool right in the middle of Zurich (the Letzigraben).
In 1947, he met Bertolt Brecht in Zurich. In 1951, he was awarded a grant by the Rockefeller Foundation and spent one year in the United States. After 1955 he worked exclusively as a freelance writer. His experience of postwar Europe is vividly described in his diary for 1946–1949; it contains the first drafts of later fictional works.
During the 1950s and 1960s Frisch wrote several novels that explored problems of alienation and identity in modern societies. These are I'm Not Stiller (1954), Homo Faber (1957) and Wilderness of Mirrors/Gantenbein (1964). In addition, he wrote political dramas, such as Andorra and The Fire Raisers. He continued to publish extracts from his diaries. These included fragments from contemporary media reports, and paradoxical questionnaires, as well as personal reflections and reportage. He fell in love with a woman called Antonia Quick in 1969.
Max Frisch died of cancer on April 4, 1991 in Zurich. Together with Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Max Frisch is considered one of the most influential Swiss writers of the 20th century. He was awarded honorary degrees by the University of Marburg, Germany, in 1962, Bard College (1980), the City University of New York (1982), the University of Birmingham (1984), and the TU Berlin (1987). He also won many important German literature prizes: the Georg-Büchner-Preis in 1958, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels) in 1976, and the Heinrich-Heine-Preis in 1989. In 1965 he won the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society.
Some of the major themes in his work are the search or loss of an individual's identity; guilt and innocence (the spiritual crisis of the modern world after Nietzsche proclaimed that "God is dead"); technological omnipotence (the human belief that everything was possible and technology allowed humans to control everything) versus fate (especially in Homo Faber); and also Switzerland's idealized self-image as a tolerant democracy based on consensus — criticizing that as illusion and portraying people (and especially the Swiss) as being scared by their own liberty and being preoccupied mainly with controlling every part of their life.
Many of his works make reference to (or, as in Jonas und sein Veteran, are centered around) political issues of the time.
[edit] List of works
[edit] Novels
- Stiller (1954, I'm Not Stiller)
- Homo Faber (1957)
- Mein Name sei Gantenbein (1964, A Wilderness of Mirrors 1982, Gantenbein)
- Dienstbüchlein (1974)
- Montauk (1975)
- Tryptichon. Drei szenische Bilder (1978)
- Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän (1979, Man in the Holocene )
- Blaubart (1982, Bluebeard )
- Wilhelm Tell für die Schule (Novella, 1971, Wilhelm Tell: a School Text, published in fiction 1978)
[edit] Journals
- Blätter aus dem Brotsack (1939)
- Tagebuch 1946-1949 (1950)
- Tagebuch 1966-1971 (1972)
[edit] Dramatic works
- Nun singen sie wieder (1945)
- Santa Cruz (1947)
- Die Chinesische Mauer (1947, The Chinese Wall)
- Als der Krieg zu Ende war (1949, When the War Was Over)
- Graf Öderland (1951)
- Biedermann und die Brandstifter (1953, Firebugs)
- Don Juan oder Die Liebe zur Geometrie (1953)
- Die Grosse Wut des Philipp Hotz (1956)
- Andorra (1961)
- Biografie (1967)
- Jonas und sein Veteran (1989)
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