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Man in the Holocene: A Story

by Max Frisch
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Frisch charts the crumbling landscape of an old man’s consciousness as he slips away from himself toward death and reintegration with the age-old history of our planet. A “luminous parable...a masterpiece” (New York Times Book Review). Translated by Geoffrey Skelton. Illustrations. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

The story of a man on the brink of mental and phyiscal extinction.

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Charles McGrath

....This luminous parable of indeterminable purport is a masterpiece. -- The New York Times Books of the Century

Book Details

Published
January 1, 1980
Publisher
Harcourt
Pages
120
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780151569311

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