Mr. White claims that he is not Anatol Ludwig Stiller, a sculptor, who became disappointed to his life and escaped for some years to the United States. However, gradually the reader realizes that Mr. White's stories are untrue. Strange events undermine his security - an emergency landing in a Mexican desert against all odds, his friend Joachim hangs himself in the Mexican jungle, and he falls in love with a woman who dies of a concussion, he has an incestuous affair. Finally Faber becomes ill with stomach cancer, but it is too late for him to change his life. Frisch's style is unsentimental and laconic, completely in tune with the character of Faber.
Life is form in time.
Hanna admits that she can't explain what she means. Life is not matter and cannot be mastered by technology. My mistake with Sabeth lay in repetition. I behaved as though age did not exist, and hence contrary to nature. Frisch lived in Rome with Bachmann and wrote during this period one of his most famous plays, Andorra .