Homo faber: ein Bericht

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Suhrkamp, 1998 - Fiction - 301 pages
"Ich galube nicht an Fügung und Schicksal, als Techniker bin ich gewohnt, mit den Formeln der Wahrscheinlichkeit zu rechnen. Ich brauche, um das Unwahrscheinliche als Erfahrungstatsache gelten zu lassen, keinerlei Mystik, Mathematik genügt mir." Max Frisch, "Homo Faber" -- 4ème de couverture.

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Max Frisch Homo faber Ein Bericht
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Homo faber die Verführung des technischen
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Entstehungs und Textgeschichte
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Copyright

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About the author (1998)

Max Frisch was born in Switzerland in 1911. He attended the University of Zurich and spent six years in the Swiss Army. He also worked as a freelance writer and an architect. Frisch is most famous for writing the novel I'm Not Stiller and the play The Firebugs. Both works explore one of Frisch's major themes: the problematic nature of living life without a true understanding of one's identity. Many of his works feature explore this theme, including the plays The Chinese Wall, Andorra: A Play in Twelve Scenes, and Don Juan; or the Love of Geometry. He has also written several other novels, including Homo Faber: A Report, and Man in the Holocene. Frisch was awarded the International Neustadt Prize for Literature in 1987. He died in 1991 in Zurich.

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