I’m Not Stiller - Max Frisch, Michael Bullock (Translator)

Category: Adults, Classic, General Fiction, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: 20th Century Classics Fiction German Literature Germany Literary Fiction Literature Mystery Novels Philosophy

Written by Max Frisch, Michael Bullock (Translator)
Read by Jonathan Davis
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Arrested and imprisoned in a small Swiss town, a prisoner begins this book with an exclamation: “I’m not Stiller!” He claims that his name is Jim White, that he has been jailed under false charges and under the wrong identity. To prove he is who he claims to be, he confesses to three unsolved murders and recalls in great detail an adventuresome life in America and Mexico among cowboys and peasants, in back alleys and docks. He is consumed by “the morbid impulse to convince”, but no one believes him.

This is a harrowing account—part Kafka, part Camus—of the power of self-deception and the freedom that ultimately lies in self-acceptance. Simultaneously haunting and humorous, I’m Not Stiller has come to be recognized as “one of the major post-war works of fiction” and a masterpiece of German literature.

©1962 Michael Bullock (P)2022 Seagull Books London Limited

Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
Release date: 04-04-22