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Gantenbein

Max Frisch Original title Mein Name sei Gantenbein (German, 1964)

Gantenbein is a 1964 novel by the Swiss writer Max Frisch. Its original German title is Mein Name sei Gantenbein, which roughly means "Let's assume my name is Gantenbein." It has also been published in English as A Wilderness of Mirrors. The novel features an anonymous narrator who tells a multitude of fictional stories, which together reveal certain traits and patterns.

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“It is the secret that a man and a woman keep from each other that makes them a couple”

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Gantenbein (1964)

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“He knows that every piece of selfknowledge which one cannot keep to oneself makes one smaller and smaller, he knows that he who cannot keep silent his wishes to be recognized in the greatness of his selfknowledge which is no selfknowledge if it cannot be kept silent, and one becomes hypersensitive one feels betrayed because one wants to be recognized by people, one becomes ridiculous ambitious in inverse ratio to ones selfknowledge”

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Gantenbein (1964)

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“I know that I'm the happiest of lovers…”

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Gantenbein faking to his lover he is blind
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“Not to know one another to a degree that went beyond all possibility of knowing one another was beautiful.”

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Gantenbein (1964)

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“They wanted what is possible only once: the now.”

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Gantenbein (1964)

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