Homo Faber
$32.48
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
27 November 2006
Summary
Reissued in Modern Classics in the run up to the 50th anniversary of its first publication
The novel tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who believes in a 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 w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141188669 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141188669 |
| Author: | Max Frisch |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 27 November 2006 |
| Weight: | 171g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Max Frisch
Max Frisch (1911-1991) was a Swiss novelist, playwright, diarist, and essayist. He began his career as an architect before achieving fame with the play When the War Was Over in 1949. His most famous novels are Stiller (1954) and Homo Faber (1957).
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