Homo Faber

Ein Bericht

Paperback, 208 pages

German language

Published Feb. 28, 1977 by Suhrkamp Verlag.

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978-3-518-36854-1
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Homo Faber (German: Homo faber. Ein Bericht) is a novel by Swiss author Max Frisch, first published in Germany in 1957. The first English translation was published in Britain in 1959. The novel is written as a first-person narrative. The protagonist, Walter Faber, is a successful engineer traveling throughout Europe and the Americas on behalf of UNESCO. His world view based on logic, probability, and technology is challenged by a series of incredible coincidences as his repressed past and chance occurrences come together to break up his severely rational, technically oriented ideology.

Max Frischs Homo faber ist eines der wichtigsten und meistgelesenen Bücher des 20. Jahrhunderts: Der Ingenieur Walter Faber glaubt an sein rationales Weltbild, das durch eine Liebesgeschichte zerbricht. Kein anderer zeitgenössischer Roman stellt derart ehrlich wie hintergründig die Frage nach der Identität des modernen Menschen.

»›Homo faber‹ wird der Schweizer Ingenieur Walter Faber beziehungsreich gennant, dem dieser erzählte …

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