num_pages: 404
description: Max Frisch is one of the most widely read and highly regarded European authors to appear since the Second World War. His tragi-comic novel, I'm Not Stiller, brilliantly translated by Michael Bullock, is his most important work to appear so far.It is the story of a man named White, traveling on an American passport to his home town in Switzerland. When he arrives there he is arrested on the suspicion that he is in fact the distinguished sculptor named Anatol Stiller, who vanished nearly a decade before and who is wanted by the police. Every effort is made to prove that White is actually Stiller. The intense dramatic conflict arises from "White's" struggle to refuse responsibility for a "rejected" past.The loss and discovery of personal identity is one of the major themes of modern literature. It receives masterful expression in I'm Not Stiller.
language: English
title: IM NOT STILLER V219
titlecomplete: IM NOT STILLER V219
characters: Julika Stiller-Tschudy,, Anatol Ludwig Stiller, James Larkin White
genres: 20th Century, Literature, German Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Philosophy, Germany, Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 4874
places: Switzerland
publisher: Vintage