An Answer from the Silence

An Answer from the Silence: A Story from the Mountains (German: Antwort aus der Stille: Eine Erzählung aus den Bergen) is a 1937 novel by the Swiss writer Max Frisch. It tells the story of a young man who escapes to the Swiss Alps ten days before his wedding.

An Answer from the Silence

First edition
Author	Max Frisch
Original title	Antwort aus der Stille
Translator	Mike Mitchell
Language	German
Publisher	Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt
Publication date	1937
Publication place	Germany
Published in English	2011
Pages	130

Reception

The book was reviewed in Publishers Weekly in 2011: "Infused with a post-WWI despair at the human condition, Frisch (1911-1991) refused this early piece's inclusion in his collected works in the 1970s, having burned the original manuscript in the woods in 1937. It seems a pity that this earnest and unusual book, in a crisp translation by Mitchell, has been denied us until now."^[1]

See also

• 1937 in literature
• Swiss literature