The novel tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who believes in rational, calculated world. Strange events undermine his security - an emergency landing in a Mexican desert against all odds, his friend Joachim hangs himself in the Mexican jungle, and he falls in love with a woman who dies of a concussion, he has an incestuous affair. Finally Faber becomes ill with stomach cancer, but it is too late for him to change his life.
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The novel tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who believes in rational, calculated world. Strange events undermine his security - an emergency landing in a Mexican desert against all odds, his friend Joachim hangs himself in the Mexican jungle, and he falls in love with a woman who dies of a concussion, he has an incestuous affair. Finally Faber becomes ill with stomach cancer, but it is too late for him to change his life.
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New. 2006. Paperback. Tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who believes in rational, calculated world. Strange events undermine his security-an emergency landing in a Mexican desert against all odds, his friend Joachim hangs himself in the Mexican jungle, and he falls in love with a woman who dies of a concussion. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 174......We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 228 p. Harvest Book. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
I have recently been on a Max Frisch tear lately. In the past four weeks I have gone from having been completely unaware of the author to having read all of his works but two "novels" and the two volumes of Sketchbooks. Needless to say, I am quite awed by his unique approach to the novel, and endlessly charmed by his quirky openness. I feel, in ways, that I have made a new friend.
Homo Faber is truly not my favorite of his works, though it is regarded as his best, most popular novel, and was even made into a film. Rather, I find Homo Faber a great place for one to start reading his work. All of his novels, and plays, are very heavily connected, very personal. This explains why I put the word novel in quotations above. There is little fiction here, and his neurosis and thoughts, desires, doubts, all are out in the open and clearly communicated; examined and weighed and never apologized for or excused.
This is a must-read, among better in his ouevre, of modern man and our dilemma of being, and of being moral.
