A reissue of a comic and tragic play that asks just how much of our life we could--or would--change if we got another chance. In this play by Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch, a middle-aged behavioral researcher K???rmann is given the opportunity to start his life over at any point he chooses and change his decisions and actions in matters both serious and mundane--He could save his marriage, become politically active, take better care of his health, or even change the color of his living room furniture. Despite ...
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A reissue of a comic and tragic play that asks just how much of our life we could--or would--change if we got another chance. In this play by Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch, a middle-aged behavioral researcher K???rmann is given the opportunity to start his life over at any point he chooses and change his decisions and actions in matters both serious and mundane--He could save his marriage, become politically active, take better care of his health, or even change the color of his living room furniture. Despite his intention to apply the wisdom he has acquired with age, K???rmann finds himself inexorably trapped in the same decisions. Ultimately proving fatal, K???rmann's life game interrogates how much of our own path is shaped by seemingly random factors and how much is in fact predetermined by our own limited, conditioned selves. The play's central idea--that our lives are nothing but a self-conscious play with imaginary identities--is brilliantly captured in Biography 's dramaturgical form, setting up a theatre rehearsal as the metaphor for the endless possibilities and variables of the game of life. Frisch's own revised, dramatically heightened version of his play celebrates not only the theatre as a form of self-expression but also the human condition in all its potential and limitations as it showcases both comic and tragic outcomes that define all our lives.
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This is one of the most impressive and exhilirating novels I've ever read. But be careful, the sweet, honest revery which it invokes, the questions it asks, which inevitably you ask yourself, they are difficult questions, impossible scenarios.
Over and over, he goes back through a life - always asking whether he is acting or reacting; whether he is living in accordance with himself or in spite. It is an open-book-test of a life whose only uncertainties are the alternate futures created by finally breaking the cycle of a life lived to choose a different option.
I cannot recommend this very short play/novel enough. It is a torturously great read!
