Harvest Book Homo Faber, (Paperback)

from TadAD

I read this in my twenties, it depressed the heck out of me, but I didn't want to stop reading. I suspect that, were I to read it now (many years later), Walter's mid-life crisis would hit home eve...

from HadriantheBlind

A novel of slowing down and being left behind by the world and technology, and the imprisonment that that world might bring.

from jcbrunner

The main problem I have with Max Frisch's Homo Faber is its implausible Oedipus-like meeting of people. You truly need to suspend your belief. I see a similarity to Voltaire's Candide where the did...

from Praj05

“Nothing is harder than to accept oneself." - Max Frisch. Walter Faber is a paradigm of collective identity v/s self-identity, rationality v/s irrationality and providence v/s concurrence; counter...

from BrianFannin

Third German book of the year, but probably the only one that qualifies as a legitimate adult-type novel. At times confusing for a non-native speaker. The coincidences and revelations may seem like...