An Answer from the Silence: A Story from the Mountains by Max Frisch, Smith Nicholson

An Answer from the Silence: A Story from the Mountains

Max Frisch, Smith Nicholson

118 pages first pub 1937 (editions)

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Readers who have ever felt the pangs of existential dread and the yearning for something more in life will find a kindred spirit in the protagonist of An Answer from the Silence, a challenging and deeply personal novel that explores the human search for meaning and connection in a seemingly ordinary world.

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This novel by esteemed Swiss writer Max Frisch is an exploration of the question: “Why don’t we live when we know we’re here just this one time, just one single, unrepeatable time in this unutterably magnificent world?!” This outcry against the em...

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