FAESI, ROBERT (1883– ), Swiss poet, dramatist, story-writer and literary critic, was born at Zurich on April To, 1883, and became professor of German literature at the uni versity of that town. He is one of the very few successful play wrights that Switzerland can boast, his tragedies Odysseus and Nausikaa (191 I) and Opferspiel (1925) and the comedy of Die Fassade (1918) attaining a high level of excellence. His chief poems are Aits der Brandung (1917; an outcome of the World War) and Der Brennende Busch (1926). The Ziircher Idylle (1908) and the Konig von Ste. Pelagie (1924) are attractive short stories. His critical works include studies of Carl Spitteler (1915), Rainer Maria Rilke (1919), and C. F. Meyer (1925), and a volume entitled Gestalten and Wandlungen Schweizer ischen Dic/itung (1922).