Bluebeard (Frisch novel)
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| Author | Max Frisch |
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| Original title | Blaubart |
| Translator | Geoffrey Skelton |
| Language | German |
| Publisher | Suhrkamp Verlag |
Publication date | 1982 |
| Publication place | Germany |
Published in English | 1982 |
| Pages | 171 |
| ISBN | 3518028448 |
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.
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]
Film
- Bluebeard (1984, TV film directed by Krzysztof Zanussi), with Vadim Glowna, Margarethe von Trotta, Barbara Lass, Karin Baal, Vera Tschechowa, Maja Komorowska, Elisabeth Trissenaar
