Antwort aus der Stille

Why don't we live, knowing that we are only here once, just a single and unrepeatable time, in this unimaginably beautiful world? Balz Leuthold never wanted to be "ordinary," yet just before his thirtieth birthday, he has nothing extraordinary to show for it. Now he wants to achieve through climbing what he could not attain in art and literature: the heroic deed that will finally transform his "existence" into a true "life." More than seventy years after its publication, this early story by Max Frisch is now accessible again. Urgent and unrefined, it already confronts the question of biographical identity that would shape his entire work: What constitutes a fulfilled life? Let’s find out why Frisch banished this highly unusual and extremely dense, masterful narrative, and which traits of his character embarrassed him. The answer indeed comes from silence in this book; each reader will find a personally relevant interpretation through their own reading. This reading can be completed in just a few particularly rewarding hours.