‘Every word is false and true, that is the nature of words’So how can we ever know for certain the identity of the man in the cell? He claims to be an American citizen named White but the police are unshakeable in their belief that he is Anatol Ludwig Stiller, the Swiss sculptor who vanished nearly a decade before. Despite the insistence of Stiller’s wife, brother and mistress, and in the face of every incentive to admit that he is Stiller, the man perseveres in his denial. Yet he betrays uncanny perceptions of the personality he disclaims - sculptor, husband, lover... prisoner.I'm Not Stiller reveals the comic and disturbing literary powers of Max Frisch as he explores the nature of identity.