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...STILLER (363 pp.)-Max Frisch-Abelard-Schuman...
...this halfway point, the reader begins to see clearly what Swiss Novelist Frisch is up to, i.e., a sort of Franz Kafka's Castle in reverse. In the Kafka fable, the modern hero struggled to gain entry into an official world that denied his existence; in I'm Not Stiller, he struggles to deny the existence that the same world imposes on him. And, as in The Castle, the setting and characters in I'm Not Stiller may be understood symbolically as well as really. Sam's "prison" is his own fear. The "border" at which...
...Author Frisch's solution is an ingenious blend of religion and psychology. He argues his case with subtlety and a nice sense of drama (he is a playwright as well as a novelist). The only difficulty readers will find in his book is that it starts off with the bang of a whodunit and then tails off into the world of Germanic near mysticism. I'm Not Stiller is already a European bestseller and has been hailed as a masterpiece; perhaps it is more accurate to describe it as the first novel since World War II that...
Baseball's Hall-of-Fameman Frankie Frisch, 59, onetime (1933-38) pilot light of the St. Louis Cardinals' Gas House...
Gang and lately a TV sportscaster, sniffed at the plush-lined genteelness of today's game. As ex-Manager Frisch sees it, baseball training camps nowadays "are no more than country clubs without dues." Other evidence of baseball's decline from its rigors of yore: "In my day there were no rides to and from the park. You walked-and if you were caught riding it cost you 25 bucks . . . When they wanted a new manager, you were told simply to 'get outa here-you're fired!' Owners are more polite nowadays; they announce...