Bluebeard (Frisch novel)

Bluebeard

Book cover
Author Max Frisch
Original title Blaubart
Translator Geoffrey Skelton
Country Germany
Language German
Publisher Suhrkamp Verlag
Publication date
1982
Published in English
1982
Pages 171
ISBN 3518028448

Bluebeard (German: Blaubart) is a 1982 novel by the Swiss writer Max Frisch. It tells the story of a medical doctor who is accused of murdering his ex-wife. It was Frisch's last novel.

Reception

Hans Mayer of Die Zeit called Bluebeard "A beautiful new story, which with Montauk and Holocene clearly rounds off an epic triptych.[1] Reinhard Baumgart of Der Spiegel described it as "very taciturn, yes a quiet book", and wrote that "In parts, the story truly speaks the embarrassing, suggestive and all but naked language of dreams, of the repression of a very bright and sometimes also too weakly lit dream.[2]

See also

References

  1. Mayer, Hans (1982). "Ritter Blaubart und Andorra". Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 2012-04-01. Eine schöne neue Erzählung, die sich mit 'Montauk' und 'Holozän' ganz offensichtlich zum epischen Triptychon gerundet hat.
  2. Baumgart, Reinhard (1982-04-19). "Reinhard Baumgart über Max Frisch: Blaubart". Der Spiegel (in German). Retrieved 2012-04-01. sehr wortkarges, ja ein schweigsames Buch"; "Die Erzählung spricht streckenweise tatsächlich die peinliche, andeutende und doch nackte Sprache des Traums, des Verdrängten eines sehr hell und manchmal auch zu fein ausgeleuchteten Traums.

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