Storia di identità smarrita e dispersa, racconto a più livelli. Forse, come nota il curatore, perfino un thriller. Grande prova di struttura e scrittura di Frisch. ( )

“We live in an age of reproduction,” he says. “Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes … our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are televiewers, telehearers, teleknowers.”

Reason Read: This is a botm for Reading 1001 May. Max Frisch, a Swiss author and this novel is one of two he has on the list and the first one by this author for me. At least it was somewhat of a story and the beginning started out well but it soon became a drudge to read. It is about a man who comes to Switzerland and is arrested because they believe he is Anatol Ludwig Stiller. It examines identity and whether we are free to invent ourselves or are we who others say we are, free to invent ourselves but not free from our yesterdays. The book examines whether in todays society and our exposure to technology which affects our identity, we can be like Stiller who may have read about Spain, Mexico (Hemingway, Greene) and really never traveled to these countries. It also has some similarities to Mann and his Magic Mountain. Over all I found it a bit better than Thomas Bernhard but still a hard to engage with book. ( )

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I really enjoyed Max Fisch's novel "I'm Not Stiller." The story was really compelling and offered up some great thoughts on identity -- are you the person you believe yourself to be.... or are you the product of what all those who know you see? Such a great idea for a book.

The novel follows a man who is arrested in Switzerland after someone identifies him as the missing and mysterious Stiller. The prisoner denies he is Stiller and begins to set down his evidence in his notebooks.

I liked this story a lot on a first reading, but I think it's definitely one of those books that I'd get even more out of reading it again. ( )

This book is about mistaken identity. When Stiller is picked up he puts on the ruse of being someone completely different.

This book has received lots of praise but for me it was long and boring and I could never really follow the story. ( )