Bluebeard (German: Blaubart) is a 1982 novel by the Swiss writer Max Frisch. It tells the story of a medical doctor who is accused of murdering his ex-wife. It was Frisch's last novel.
 Book cover | |
| Author | Max Frisch |
|---|---|
| Original title | Blaubart |
| Translator | Geoffrey Skelton |
| Language | German |
| Publisher | Suhrkamp Verlag |
Publication date | 1982 |
| Publication place | Germany |
Published in English | 1982 |
| Pages | 171 |
| ISBN | 3518028448 |
Reception
editHans Mayer of Die Zeit called Bluebeard "A beautiful new story, which with Montauk and Holocene clearly rounds off an epic triptych.[1] Reinhard Baumgart of Der Spiegel described it as "very taciturn, yes a quiet book", and wrote that "In parts, the story truly speaks the embarrassing, suggestive and all but naked language of dreams, of the repression of a very bright and sometimes also too weakly lit dream."[2]
Film
edit- Bluebeard (1984, TV film directed by Krzysztof Zanussi), with Vadim Glowna, Margarethe von Trotta, Barbara Lass, Karin Baal, Vera Tschechowa, Maja Komorowska, Elisabeth Trissenaar
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Mayer, Hans (1982). "Ritter Blaubart und Andorra". Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 2012-04-01.
Eine schöne neue Erzählung, die sich mit 'Montauk' und 'Holozän' ganz offensichtlich zum epischen Triptychon gerundet hat.
- ^ Baumgart, Reinhard (1982-04-19). "Reinhard Baumgart über Max Frisch: Blaubart". Der Spiegel (in German). Retrieved 2012-04-01.
sehr wortkarges, ja ein schweigsames Buch"; "Die Erzählung spricht streckenweise tatsächlich die peinliche, andeutende und doch nackte Sprache des Traums, des Verdrängten eines sehr hell und manchmal auch zu fein ausgeleuchteten Traums.
External links
edit- Max Frisch discusses Bluebeard with Michael Hamburger - a British Library sound recording
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