Michael Frayn

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September 08, 1933 in London, The United Kingdom

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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Michael Frayn is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy. His novels, such as Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong and Spies, have also been critical and commercial successes, making him one of the handful of writers in the English language to succeed in both drama and prose fiction. His works often raise philosophical questions in a humorous context. Frayn's wife is Claire Tomalin, the biographer and literary journalist.

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Average rating: 3.88 · 10089 ratings · 567 reviews · 64 distinct works

	Noises Off 420 avg rating — 2508 ratings — published 1982	My rating:
	Copenhagen 395 avg rating — 1057 ratings — published 1998 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Spies 344 avg rating — 876 ratings — published 2002 — 25 editions	My rating:
	Headlong 353 avg rating — 867 ratings — published 1999 — 24 editions	My rating:
	A Landing on the Sun 365 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Towards The End Of The Morning 374 avg rating — 97 ratings — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Trick of It: A Novel 356 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Democracy: A Play 368 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Copenhagen Papers: An Intrigue by Michael Frayn, David Burke 356 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe 353 avg rating — 49 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:

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“Bohr: Heisenberg, I have to say - if people are to be measured strictly in terms of observable quantities...

Heisenberg: Then we should need a strange new quantum ethics.”
― Michael Frayn, Copenhagen

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“Why did *I* lock the door? Why did YOU lock the door? Someone locked the door...”
― Michael Frayn, Noises Off

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“We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets, never to be reconciled, to our fellow-country men, to our neighbors, to our friends, to our family to our children. We have to go through not two slits at the same time but twenty-two. All we can do is to look afterwards, and see what happened.”
― Michael Frayn, Copenhagen

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