Homo Faber

Homo Faber Synopsis

A man who strives for pure rationality and control finds himself at the mercy of fate, in a ';novel that speaks tellingly of loneliness, love, and despair' (Booklist). Walter Faber, engineer, is a man for whom only the tangible, calculable, verifiable exists. He is devoted to the service of a purely technological world.

His associates have nicknamed him Homo Faber';Man the Maker.' But during a flight to South America, Faber succumbs to what he calls ';fatigue phenomena,' losing touch with realityand soon he finds himself crisscrossing the globe, from New York to France to Italy to Greece. He also finds himself in the company of a woman whofor reasons he cannot explain or understandstrongly attracts him. The basis for the film Voyager starring Sam Shepard, this novel ';capture[s] that essential anguish of modern man which we find in the best of Camus' (Saturday Review).

Translated by Michael Bullock