Homo Faber
Max Frisch, Michael Bullock
- 228 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Homo Faber
Max Frisch, Michael Bullock
About This Book
A man who strives for pure rationality and control finds himself at the mercy of fate, in a "novel that speaks tellingly of loneliness, love, and despair" ( Booklist ). Walter Faber, engineer, is a man for whom only the tangible, calculable, verifiable exists. He is devoted to the service of a purely technological world. His associates have nicknamed him Homo Faberâ"Man the Maker." But during a flight to South America, Faber succumbs to what he calls "fatigue phenomena, " losing touch with realityâand soon he finds himself crisscrossing the globe, from New York to France to Italy to Greece. He also finds himself in the company of a woman whoâfor reasons he cannot explain or understandâstrongly attracts him. The basis for the film Voyager starring Sam Shepard, this novel "capture[s] that essential anguish of modern man which we find in the best of Camus" ( Saturday Review ). Translated by Michael Bullock