Bluebeard () 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.

Reception

Hans Mayer of Die Zeit called Bluebeard "A beautiful new story, which with Montauk and Holocene clearly rounds off an epic triptych. 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."

Bluebeard (Frisch novel)

Film

(1984, TV film directed by Krzysztof Zanussi), with Vadim Glowna, Margarethe von Trotta, Barbara Lass, Karin Baal, Vera Tschechowa, Maja Komorowska, Elisabeth Trissenaar

Bluebeard (Frisch novel)

See also

1982 in literature

Swiss literature

References

External links

Max Frisch discusses Bluebeard with Michael Hamburger - a British Library sound recording

Bluebeard (Frisch novel)

1982 novels

German-language novels

Novels by Max Frisch

Swiss novels adapted into television shows

Swiss novels adapted into films