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      Homo Faber

      by Max Frisch
      Published
      May 1994
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      224
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      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 Faber—"Man the Maker."


       


      But during a flight to South America, Faber succumbs to what he calls "fatigue phenomena," losing touch with reality—and 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 who—for reasons he cannot explain or understand—strongly 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

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      May 1994 Mariner ISBN13 9780156421355 ISBN10 0156421356
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      Nov 2006 Penguin (UK) ISBN13 9780141188669 ISBN10 0141188669
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      May 1994 Harvest ISBN13 9780544310582 ISBN10 0544310586
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      Jul 2009 Der Hörverlag ISBN10 B00TBTLHNA
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