Diaries 1946-1949

What matters is the inexpressible white space between words. (…) Our effort should be to express everything that can be said; Language is like a chisel that chisels away everything that is not a secret, and saying everything means moving away. For this reason, we should not be frightened by the fact that everything we say sinks into a certain void after a while. (…) Language is like a sculptor using a chisel: it highlights the void, the spoken, against the mystery, against the living. There is always the danger of shattering the secret; Another danger is to leave the secret as an unfinished, shapeless mass, not to reveal it, not to seize it, not to free it from what is possible to express, that is, not to penetrate its final surface. Otherwise, this surface of what can be said, this subjectless surface, which should in fact be the same as the surface of the secret, I wonder if this surface, where the line between the mountain and the sky disappears, which exists only for the spirit and does not exist in nature, is what we call form? A kind of sonic border - Max Frisch, one of the leading and world-renowned writers of Swiss literature, writes about this in his Diaries, which cover the years 1946-1949. In his first volume, after the great destruction of the Second World War, he writes about his travels, cities, issues of the intellectual world and extremely personal events from a perspective that will attract the reader's attention, from a "Swiss-specific distance" and from an architect's perspective. Max Frisch expands the diary as a literary genre within literature and expands the field of the diary with the possibilities and variations of the language.



Number of Pages: 360

Year of Printing: 2008


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Yapı Kredi Publications

Number of Pages: 360

First Printing Year: 2008

Language: Turkish