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Homo Faber (Penguin Modern Classics) [Kindle Edition]

Max Frisch

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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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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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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • Dateigröße: 263 KB
  • Seitenzahl der Print-Ausgabe: 230 Seiten
  • ISBN-Quelle für Seitenzahl: 0156421356
  • Verlag: Penguin (2. November 2006)
  • Verkauf durch: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ASIN: B002RI9HI4
  • Text-to-Speech (Vorlesemodus): Aktiviert
  • Amazon Bestseller-Rang: #44.971 Bezahlt in Kindle-Shop (Siehe Top 100 Bezahlt in Kindle-Shop)

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Ought to be rated PG-42... 23. Oktober 2006
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--because to truly appreciate this beautiful novel you really need to have lived through at least four decades or so.

It strikes me that so much great literature goes unread by those to whom it is ultimately directed. The `classics' are generally written by writers in their 40s and 50s and end up primarily being read by teenagers. Sure, you can get something out of these texts then, but theres no way a 20-year-old can really understand *Homo Faber*--a novel about a middle-aged man confronting his own mortality, decay, & disillusionment. Death is still largely an abstraction to a man of twenty, it hasnt yet entered his bones, love is still possible, youth is still a contemporary, a 20-year-old doesnt yet know what he's going to lose, what he's never going to get back, how badly he's going to miss it.

*Homo Faber* is a classic text of midlife crisis. It's a shame that so many of us have stopped reading altogether when we reach the age it can do us the most good...that we stop reading the classics, anyway, or feel they are irrelevant to our lives, or merely `stuff we already read back when we were in school.' A novel like *Homo Faber* is, to my mind, a religious text in the best sense of that term--in this case, a kind of updated Ecclesiastes.

I can only wonder what the original German text is like because this translation is absolutely stunning, rising to the level of sheer poetry. Almost every line is an ice-dagger into the heart. Such a beautiful, sad, and true book...and everything that needed saying said in 212 pages. Did Max Frisch ever win a Nobel Prize for Literature when the Nobel Prize still meant something? Cause on the basis of this book alone, he should have won two!!
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The Techniker finds his soul 17. Mai 1999
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I read this book in the German and enjoyed it immensely. Walter Faber, a globe-trotting engineer, uses technology and his scientific worldview as a shield against other people and against his own humanity. When his shield fails him, he learns to open his heart and live fully. Regardless of whether you share Frisch's opinions about science, the book is beautifully written. Walter Faber is both horrifying and touchingly sympathetic. Despite the tragic plot, the strength of the novel is its small comic moments, of which there are many. If you just watch the movie (even the German-language adaptation, which is much more faithful to the book than the American film), you will miss almost everything that is worthwhile about Homo Faber. Read the book! (In German, if possible.)
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A wonderful story. . . with an alarming twist 20. Februar 1998
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Like the previous reviewer, I read this book for an undergraduate German literature class and I found Frisch's writing wonderfully comic, but not without its disturbing points. One thing that is lacking in the English translation is Frisch's wonderful critiques of the "American Way of Life." So, I definately recomend trying the German version if at all possible. I also agree with the previous writer that the movie is a great disappointment. It changes the story into a pure love story and dismisses the importance of Walter Faber's transformation into someone, who for the first time in his life allows himself to truly live and love.

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Mathematically speaking, the probable (that in 6,000,000,000 throws with a regular six-sided die the one will come up approximately 1,000,000,000 times) and the improbable (that in six throws with the same die the one will come up six times) are not different in kind, but only in frequency, whereby the more frequent appears a priori more probable. But the occasional occurrence of the improbable does not imply the intervention of a higher power, something in the nature of a miracle, as the layman is so ready to assume. &quote;
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