“Technology [is] the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.”
Max Frisch book Homo Faber
Source: Homo Faber (1957)
Quotes from bookHomo Faber
Max FrischOriginal title Homo faber, Ein Bericht (German, 1957)
Homo Faber is a novel by Max Frisch, first published in Germany in 1957. The first English edition was published in England in 1959. The novel is written as a first-person narrative. The protagonist, Walter Faber, is a successful engineer traveling throughout Europe and the Americas on behalf of UNESCO. His world view based on logic, probability, and technology is challenged by a series of incredible coincidences as his repressed past and chance occurrences come together to break up his severely rational, technically oriented ideology.
