by Max Frisch · El País: Clásicos del Siglo XX · tapa dura · ISBN 9788489669536
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«Homo Faber» is the novel by Swiss writer Max Frisch, published by El País in hardback (263 pages, in Spanish).
Engineer Walter Faber trusts in technology and the law of probabilities, and maintains strict control over his life. A series of coincidences and unexpected encounters during his travels between Europe and America forces him to confront his past and question the image he has built of the world and of himself.
Volume from El País's Clásicos del Siglo XX collection, in a translation by Margarita Fontsere. The novel was originally published in 1957.
Recommended for readers interested in twentieth-century European classics and in stories where reason and fate come into conflict.
Max Rudolf Frisch was a Swiss playwright and novelist. Frisch's works focused on problems of identity, individuality, responsibility, morality, and political commitment. The use of irony is a significant feature of his post-war output. Frisch was one of the founders of Gruppe Olten. He was awarded the 1965 Jerusalem Prize, the 1973 Grand Schiller Prize, and the 1986 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
