The discovery was sensational: In August 2009, the typescript of an unknown work by the great Swiss author was found in the Max Frisch Archive in Zurich. The response to the publication was enormous, turning the book into a bestseller. Following the legendary diaries published in 1950 and 1972, Max Frisch had been working on a third since 1982. Once again, external events become focal points: the relationship with a much younger woman, the Cold War, the cancer death of a close friend - Frisch processes these into brilliant reflections on life and death, moments of happiness, and the burden of aging. Frisch composes brief notes and longer reflective passages into an artistic whole, elevating the seemingly fleeting notes to the level of literature: "a book about life and death, a book of happiness and despair.".