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Homo Faber - Couverture souple

Frisch, Max

 
9780141188669: Homo Faber
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0141188669 ISBN 13 : 9780141188669
Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2006

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

Max Frisch (1911-1991) Swiss novelist, playwright, diarist, and essayist, who 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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Éditeur
Penguin Classics
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0141188669
ISBN 13 
9780141188669
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
The Random House Group Limited
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Personne responsable
The Random House Group Limited
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