Michael Frayn Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

A unique memoir of a lifetime's friendships - from one of Britain's most beloved literary companions.

Anything but analogue, Magic Mobile is the latest offering of comic genius from Michael Frayn, the author of Matchbox Theatre and Pocket Playhouse. 'Michael Frayn is the most philosophical comic writer - and the most comic philosophical writer - of our time.' Daily Mail

Ein Mitarbeiter des Nobelpreiskomitees versucht verzweifelt, die frohe Botschaft zu überbringen. Ein Kontraphonspieler will im hintersten Orchestergraben seinen Einsatz bei Takt 973 keineswegs verpassen, und Lady Hillarye und Sir Geoffrye verbringen streitend ihre letzte Ruhe in einer Gruft. Michael Frayn ist ein Meister britischen Humors und sein Streichholzschachteltheater bietet eine vergnügliche Show in 30 zündenden Unterhaltungen und Monologen, die nur darauf warten, im kleinsten Theater der Welt, in Ihrer Phantasie, aufgeführt zu werden. Frayn bietet die Vorlage, Sie sorgen für Getränke und Eiscreme. Und ein kurzweiliger unterhaltsamer Abend ist garantiert.

Na výročním setkání věhlasné Nadace Freda Topplera, jež hostí řecký ostrov Skios, vrcholí přípravy na příjezd hlavního hosta dr. Normana Wilfreda, světové kapacity v oboru scientometrie. Jak se k všeobecnému překvapení ukáže, obávaný dr. Wilfred není žádný suchar, ale pohledný a nadmíru zábavný mladý muž, jehož šarmu zakrátko podlehnou nejen přítomní hosté, ale i půvabná organizátorka Nikki. Na opačném konci ostrova zatím panuje výbušná atmosféra poté, co Nikkiina přítelkyně Georgie nalezne v pronajaté vile, v níž hodlá strávit týden ve společnosti pohledného a zábavného milence, jen zcela dezorientovaného postaršího akademika, po příletu na ostrov nešťastným řízením osudu připraveného o všechny osobní věci s výjimkou textu přednášky o scientometrii… Mistrně zkomponovaná komedie plná přehmatů, komplotů a faux pas z pera známého anglického prozaika a dramatika byla horkým kandidátem na titul nejzábavnější knihy roku.

First published in 1974 and republished following the success of Frayn's masterly work of philosophy, The Human Touch, Constructions is a dazzling, thought-provoking and fascinating book which explores some of the great problems in philosophy and of everyday life.

The author of award winning novels (such as Spies), plays (Copenhagen and Noises Off) and films (Clockwise) here produces his first work of non-fiction, one which explores all of the ideas behind his brilliant, funny and hugely popular work.

Uncumber lives in a dystopian world where all humanity is divided in two - the Insiders and the Outsiders. The Insiders are privileged, with their every need catered to by somatic drugs, three-dimensional holovision and prolonged life. Uncumber lives in this luxurious world and is told that she must never go out into the dust and disease of the real world. Uncumber, however, is haunted by a restless and inquisitive spirit. When she falls in love with an Outsider, she decides to go exploring. . . Michael Frayn is the award-winning author of Headlong, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Spies, which won the Whitbread Best Novel Award, and Skios, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize. 'A fairy tale of the future. . . Frayn handles his observations and inventions brilliantly' Guardian

Three political parties, in and out of bed with each other like drunken intellectuals, fifteen warring cabinet ministers, and sixty million separate egos. All making deals with each other and breaking them. All looking round at every moment to see the expression on everyone else's face. All trying to guess which way everyone else will jump. All out for themselves and all totally dependent on everyone else. Not one Germany. Sixty million separate Germanies. The tower of Babel! Set in West Germany in 1969, Democracy follows Willy Brandt as he begins his brief but remarkable career as the first leftofcentre Chancellor for nearly forty years. Always present but rarely noticed is Günter Guillaume, Brandt's devoted personal assistant and no less devoted in his other role, spying on Brandt for the Stasi.Published to tie in with major new production at the Royal National Theatre directed by Michael Blakemore starring Roger Allam, Conleth Hill, Nicholas Blane, Jonathan Coy, Christopher Ettridge, Paul Gregory, Glyn Grain, Steven Pacey and David Ryall.

In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live the only immediate signs of the Second World War are the blackout at night and a single random bombsite. But the two boys suspect that the comfortably ordinary houses in the Close and their inhabitants are not what they seem. As Keith, the leader in all their enterprises, authoritatively informs the trusting Stephen, the whole district is riddled with secret passages and underground laboratories - hideaways for any number of murderers, unsung war heroes and secret agents. Then one day Keith announces an even more disconcerting discovery: the Germans have infiltrated his own family. And when the secret underground world they have dreamed up emerges from the shadows they find themselves engulfed in mysteries far deeper and more painful than they had bargained for. 'Deeply satisfying . . . Frayn has written nothing better.' Independent 'Frayn has never written more seductively and surely than in this book.' Sunday Times

The two old friends, both nuclear scientists, found themselves on opposite sides in a world war, and Heisenberg's intentions on that visit, for good or for evil, have long intrigued and baffled historians and scientists.".

Michael Frayn hat ein sensationell erfolgreiches Theaterstück über den geheimnisvollen Besuch Werner Heisenbergs bei Niels Bohr im besetzten Kopenhagen geschrieben. Eines Tages erhält er mysteriöse Papiere zugeschickt, die angeblich aus Farm Hall stammen, dem Ort, wo die Engländer die deutschen Atomphysiker nach dem Krieg interniert hatten. Was sich anhört wie die Anleitung zum Aufstellen einer Tischtennisplatte, gibt, so mutmaßt Frayn, womöglich Hinweise auf den Bau einer Atombombe! Es beginnt ein unglaubliches Schelmenstück über die Verquickung von Fiktion und Wirklichkeit, über Täuschen und Getäuschtwerden.

'Michael Frayn's tremendous play is a piece of history, an intellectual thriller, a psychological investigation and a moral tribunal in full session' Sunday Times 'A profound and haunting meditation on the mysteries of human motivation' Independent 'Frayn has seized on a ral-life historical and scientific mystery. In 1941 the physicist Werner Heisenberg, who formulated the famous Uncertainty Principle about the movement of particles, and was at that time leading the Nazi's nuclear programme, went to visit his old boss and mentor, Niels Bohr, in Copenhagen. What was the purpose of his visit to Nazi-occupied Denmark? What did the two old friends say to each other, particularly bearing in mind that Bohr was both half-Jewish and a Danish patriot?... Frayn argues that just as it is impossible to be certain of the precise location of an electron, so it is impossible to be certain about the workings of the human mind... What is certain is that Frayn makes ideas zing and sing in this play' Daily Telegraph

Když mladého anglického filosofa Martina Claye a jeho manželku, historičku umění Kate, pozvou na návštěvu jejich venkovští sousedé, aby je požádali o posudek několika starých obrazů, které zamýšlejí prodat, Martin pochopí, že stojí před příležitostí, jaká přichází jen jednou za život: jedním ze zaprášených děl je podle jeho názoru chybějící plátno z Bruegelova cyklu „Roční doby“, jehož objev by znamenal zásadní zlom v jeho kariéře i nepominutelný finanční zisk. Zmocnit se obrazu, aniž by jeho nevzdělaný a samolibý vlastník prohlédl Martinovy plány, však není jednoduché a vyžaduje nejen důmyslný plán, ale i značné finanční riziko, a jak Martin postupně zjišťuje, ve hře se ocitá víc, než původně očekával – včetně budoucnosti jeho rodinného života a citové investice, již se zdá vyžadovat záchrana drahocenného plátna a cesta ke slávě a bohatství...

Was macht das Leben eigentlich schön, muß sich der Ministerialbeamte Brian Jessel fragen, als ein ganz besonderer Fall auf seinem Schreibtisch landet und in seine sonst so ereignislose Existenz mächtig Bewegung bringt. Mit Humor und liebevoller Freude am psychologischen Detail erinnert der britische Autor Michael Frayn an die Lektion, die uns das Leben längst erteilt hat: Wenn man nur will, kann man vom grauen Alltag abheben - und auf der Sonne landen.

He knows everything about her before they meet; more about her nine novels that she does herself. He has devoted his life to studying and teaching them, even though he is four times as clever as she is. Now, as she steps off the train, arriving to do a lecture for his students, something about her in the flesh sets him thinking. Maybe he has a chance to resolve the one remaining mystery at the heart of things . . .

Signed and dedicated to the title page by the author. 'To Jackie and Turner with Best Wishes From Michael Frayn'. Includes several pages of stills from the film starring John Cleese

In Noises Off Michael Frayn creates an ingenious play-within-a-play farce. The on-stage play is a dreadful bedroom farce called Noises On in which scantily clad young ladies are being chased in and out of continually opening and slamming doors by old men. The backstage farce develops during the play's final rehearsal and tour as the characters make their exits from Noises On only to find themselves making entrances into the even worse nightmare going on backstage and then have to go back again on stage to Noises On . In the end the two farces can be kept separate no longer, and coalesce into one single collective nervous breakdown.

Am William Morris Institute für Automationsforschung hat man eine bahnbrechende Idee: warum nicht Computer darauf programmieren, all die lästigen Aufgaben zu erledigen, die den Menschen wie Mühlsteine um den Hals hängen? Gesagt, getan. Die neuen Maschinen verfassen Romane, schreiben Zeitungsmeldungen und texten vollautomatisch Gebete. Auch die »Ethik-Abteilung« ist kräftig involviert: Kann man eine Maschine bauen, die eine ethisches Verhaltensmuster entwickelt? Und natürlich dient alles einem höheren Zweck: Die Menschheit soll endlich in die Lage versetzt werden, sich mit ganzer Kraft den wahren Herausforderungen des Lebens zu widmen … wie zum Beispiel dem bevorstehenden Besuch der Königin im Institut.

Set in the sixties, this novel features Dyson, a Fleet Street journalist stuck in a sleepy newspaper department, covering nature notes and crosswords. He dreams of liberation and recognition and wants to appear on television.