Man in the Holocene: A StoryDalkey Archive Press, 2007 - 113 من الصفحات A stunning tour de force, Man in the Holocene constructs a powerful vision of our place in the world by combining the banality of an aging man's lonely inner life and the objective facts he finds in the books of his isolated home. As a rainstorm rages outside, Max Frisch's protagonist, Geiser, watches the mountain landscape crumble beneath landslides and flooding, and speculates that the town will be wiped out by the collapse of a section of the mountain. Seeking refuge from the storm in town, he makes his way through a difficult and dangerous mountain pass, only to abandon his original plan and return home. A compelling meditation by one of Frisch's most original characters, Man in the Holocene charts Geiser's desperate attempt to find his place in history and in the confusing and fragile world outside his window. |
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Alpine Alps already barns Basel beneath birds blocked blue bracken brain carnosaur chestnut trees church climb clouds Corinne Corzoneso crack Cretaceous debris dinosaurs dry-stone wall earth Elsbeth encyclopedia erosion feeling field glasses fir tree flashlight front door Geiser finds Geiser knows glaciers glowing golden section gorge grandchildren granite gray grounds hand handrail hear highway Holocene hot plate hour human Ice Age ICHTHYOSAUR Jurassic Klaus landslides later lightning little owl living lizards Locarno looks lying MAGGIA mail bus Max Frisch meat meters minestrone mist moraines morning mountains newt night once one's Ornithosuchus Ovomaltine P.M. Rain path ravines ridges rivulets rock rope rucksack Salamandridae Saurischia seen slabs slopes snow Somewhere sound spotted salamander standing steep steeper stones stopped stream suddenly summer things thumbtacks thunder Ticino Triassic umbrella usually valley village walking wall weather whole window woods yellow