Homo Faber

Name: Homo Faber
Author: Max Frisch

by Max Frisch

Engineer's obsession with control and technology destroys his life

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Max Frisch

Swiss playwright and novelist whose work examined Swiss bourgeois complacency, identity, and self-deception with cool Brechtian intelligence. The Firebugs (Biedermann und die Brandstifter) is a brilliant parable about complicity in catastrophe. His diary novels are equally important.

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