Word: stiller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yard breastroke, the Crimson's two top swimmers, Doug McCartney and Jim Stanley, finished one-two, but barely an arm's length ahead of Cornell's Dave Stiller. Had the varsity lost this race, another meet would have hinged on the final freestyle relay...
...weeks pass, Sam learns all there is to learn about Stiller. He sees Stiller's old studio and pieces of sculpture, meets Stiller's friends and relations. He even meets the woman whom Stiller ran away with: she is the wife of the lawyer who has been chosen to prosecute...
...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...
Ingenious Blend. But can Sam be proved to be Stiller? That is the question-and it is one that has always intrigued the theologians and philosophers who have delved into the problem of personal identity. "Good Swiss commonsense" knows that "Sam White" is the fiction of a desperate man who is determined to escape not only from his past but from the self by which he is known to others. But the Stiller beneath the Sam is equally sure that there is much more in him than others can perceive: by running away to the New World and becoming "another...
...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 has tried to exploit the rich, mixed inheritance handed down by Kafka, Koestler and Mann...