&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Homo_Faber_(novel).jpg) First edition of English translation book cover, 1959 | |
| Author | Max Frisch |
|---|---|
| Original title | Homo faber. Ein Bericht |
| Translator | Michael Bullock |
| Cover artist | Colin Spencer |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Abelard-Schuman |
Publication date | 1957 |
| Publication place | Switzerland |
Published in English | 1959 |
| Media type | Print, 8vo |
| Pages | 198 |
| OCLC | 877183876 |
Homo Faber: A Report (German: Homo faber. Ein Bericht) is a novel by Swiss author Max Frisch, first published in Germany in 1957. An English translation by Michael Bullock was published in Britain 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.