Sketchbooks, 1946-1949A new translation of one of the earliest volumes of Max Frischs innovative notebooks. Throughout his life, the great Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch (19111991) kept a series of diaries, or sketchbooks, as they came to be known in English. First published in English translation in the 1970s, these sketchbooks played a major role in establishing Frisch as, according to the New York Times, the most innovative, varied and hard to categorize of