Homo Faber
Ein Bericht
by Max Frisch · first published 1957
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Max Frischs Homo faber ist eines der wichtigsten und meistgelesenen Bücher des 20. Jahrhunderts: Der Ingenieur Walter Faber glaubt an sein rationales Weltbild, das durch eine Liebesgeschichte zerbricht. Kein anderer zeitgenössischer Roman stellt derart ehrlich wie hintergründig die Frage nach der Identität des modernen Menschen. »›Homo faber‹ wird der Schweizer Ingenieur Walter Faber beziehungsreich gennant, dem dieser erzählte Bericht in den Mund gelegt ist. Faber ist die vollkommene Verkörperung der technischen Existenz, dir sich vor dem Zufall und dem Schicksal sicher glaubt. Diesen Fa
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There’s a beautiful book from the 60's, 'Homo Faber', about a Swiss engineer who lives life through technology (mainly a camera lens), but then falls in love, and starts living. I think about that sometimes.
on “Not a single person living in the moment” ↗Interestingly enough there's a scene in a famous German novel, IIRC Homo Faber[0] by Max Frisch, in which the protagonist, in desperate circumstances, trades his watch for a ride. (I think it's for a ride -- it's been probably 15 years since I last read it.) At the time it struck…
on “Inside Rolex's Manufacturing Facilities (2015)” ↗…fear of death that is the tell. It's the attempt to fix it through money and technology. What I have read of Jeff Bezos reminds me somewhat of the fictional Walter Faber, the main character in the novel Homo Faber by Max Frisch. [1] Walter starts an affair with a much younger woman partly in an effort to recapture his youth. Controlling the world through technology is a leitmotiv in the story. To the extent his…
on “Jeff Bezos and the New Pharoahs” ↗Max Frisch, Homo Faber: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Faber_(novel)
on “Ask HN: What are you reading right now?” ↗