living german writers - Empfehlungen??

[miss prision]

I read all of the Peter Handke (in translation) that I could in the 80s and 
early 90s, and he's credited as the co-writer of "Wings of Desire", the Wim 
Wenders film. There's a piece about him in the Sept 21 New York Review of 
Books that I had just read before reading Christine's request. Here's a 
quotation from the article:
"Handke's prose doesn't translate well into English, but in German it has 
remarkable power, a sort of full-throated subtlety--he would seem to 
combine the directness of a writer like Hemingway with the astringency and 
ease of Don DeLillo, though he has his own, invariably alienating 
purpose.The important distinction in Handke's work is between the writer , 
or the writer's surrogate, and everything else; indeed one is so separate 
from the other that Handke can at times sound like an idiot savant whose 
talent is writing."

Another german-language writer I admire has been dead for nine years. Is 
that too long? It's Max Frisch, a Swiss writer. "Homo Faber" is one of the 
best novels I've read about technology "
the knack of so arranging the 
world that we don’t have to experience it", and "Man in the Holocene" and 
his diary "Sketchbook 1946-1949" are some of my favorite pieces of writing 
ever.

mary
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