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Switzerland

Explore 3 works from Switzerland, led by I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch. This hub traces how place, history, and tradition shape the canon.

Entry Point

Start with I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch, ranked #427 in the Canon Compass list.

#427
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I'm Not Stiller

by Max Frisch

4.1 out of 5 stars(65)

Max Frisch's I'm Not Stiller is a provocative novel of identity, self-reinvention, and the prison of the self.

Modern Mind
Philosophy & Faith
#465
Cover of Jakob von Gunten

Jakob von Gunten

by Robert Walser

4.1 out of 5 stars(166)

Discover Walser's dreamlike novel about a young man who enrolls in a school for servants and finds absurdity and freedom.

Modern Mind
#489
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Her Lover

by Albert Cohen

4.2 out of 5 stars(31)

Albert Cohen's Belle du Seigneur is a monumental novel tracing a consuming love affair from ecstasy to devastation in Geneva.

Love & Loss

Complete Switzerland Index

  1. #427I'm Not Stiller
  2. #465Jakob von Gunten
  3. #489Her Lover