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1. www.ft.com › content › 8c01f24b-74cd-46ce-a769-b45eMichael Frayn: ‘We’re all trying to make sense of what we’re ...

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   Sep 22, 2023 · Frayn himself is present only as a self-deprecating figure in the background. But for him, that’s the most accurate way of trying to pin down who he is. Even talking about it, he slips into the ...

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   Oct 10, 2014 · It’s Frayn the absurdist who appears to the fore in his new work, Matchbox Theatre (the name inspired by the minuscule toy theatres particularly popular in Germany), a compendium of miniature ...

3. www.spectator.co.uk › article › michael-fraynMichael Frayn remembers old friends – and the spy who duped ...

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   Michael Frayn. Faber, pp. 272, £20. Tell me who you go with, and I’ll tell you who you are. Guided by this principle, Michael Frayn devotes his new memoir to his friends, embracing the chance ...

4. www.varsity.co.uk › arts › 17603Meeting Michael Frayn, the spy that never was | Varsity

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   Jun 2, 2019 · It’s a relief when Frayn adds that Alan Bennett worked considerably less. Everyone seemed to have passed, even, he admits graciously, the ones he thought ‘extremely thick’ Exam purgatory resolved into a year-long spell in Cambridge, at the interpreters’ course, reserved for the most advanced students (although Frayn bats away such praise).

5. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2003/09/29Me and My Shadow - The New Yorker

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   Sep 21, 2003 · In Frayn’s theatrical shorthand, where characters talk alternately to one another and to us, ideas are narrated, not demonstrated, which, for me, is a theatrical limitation. “Democracy” is ...

6. www.newyorker.com › culture › the-new-yorkerMichael Frayn on the State of Britain and the Future of Theatre

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   Sep 13, 2020 · Frayn’s most recent play, “Afterlife,” is from 2008, and he has hinted it might be his last; it explored the checkered career of the visionary theatre director Max Reinhardt.

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   Is Frayn a self-deprecating figure?

   • Frayn himself is present only as a self-deprecating figure in the background. But for him, that’s the most accurate way of trying to pin down who he is. Even talking about it, he slips into the third person. “Asked to write an essay about oneself, what would one say?” he ponders.

   Michael Frayn: ‘We’re all trying to make sense of what we’re seeing’

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   What does Michael Frayn say about his friends?

   • Tell me who you go with, and I’ll tell you who you are. Guided by this principle, Michael Frayn devotes his new memoir to his friends, embracing the chance to pay tribute to those who shaped him. The octogenarian warns in the foreword that his choice of protagonists is ‘pretty capricious’ – a comment on Skip to main content Home Podcasts Writers

   Michael Frayn remembers old friends – and the spy who duped him

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   Why is Frayn grateful to the spy who duped him?

   • Nevertheless, Frayn is grateful to the spy who duped him since ‘it was falling for yet another of his deceits that gave me the idea for one of mine’, the play Donkeys’ Years (1976). Sackur became the prototype for one of its characters, who is a doddle to cast ‘because, after all the anticipation, he fails to appear’.

   Michael Frayn remembers old friends – and the spy who duped him

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   What happens in the final chapter of Frayn?

   • The final chapter ‘begins, like the story of man in the Bible, with a fall’ – on the night when Frayn collapsed in his bathroom, ‘as abruptly as democracy in a military putsch’ – and takes us on a tour of his body, from the feet to the brain, where memories are kept, processed and often lost. Most popular Katy Balls

   Michael Frayn remembers old friends – and the spy who duped him

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   Did Frayn ever meet a woman?

   • There are relatively few women in the book, a fact that Frayn blames on the male-dominated world of his youth and on his aversion to the kiss-and-tell genre, a potential road to betrayal. He does, however, make an exception. When he met Liza Mrosovsky in 1957, it was ‘mutual thunderclap’ at first sight.

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   Why does Frayn blame Ascherson?

   • Here, too, Frayn takes a back seat to talk about Ascherson’s journalistic talents, including his ‘serious empathy with the oppressed and struggling’. There are relatively few women in the book, a fact that Frayn blames on the male-dominated world of his youth and on his aversion to the kiss-and-tell genre, a potential road to betrayal.

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8. www.enotes.com › topics › michael-fraynMichael Frayn Criticism: Introduction - eNotes.com

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   Most critics have concurred that Frayn is a skilled practitioner of farce and social satire—recurring elements that figure prominently in almost all his writings.