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Bluebeard (Frisch novel)

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Bluebeard
Book cover
AuthorMax Frisch
Original titleBlaubart
TranslatorGeoffrey Skelton
LanguageGerman
PublisherSuhrkamp Verlag
Publication date
1982
Publication placeGermany
Published in English
1982
Pages171
ISBN3518028448

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.

Reception

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Hans 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]

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References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
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