Homo Faber

A man who strives for pure rationality and control finds himself at the mercy of fate, in a "e;novel that speaks tellingly of loneliness, love, and despair"e; (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 "e;Man the Maker."e; But during a flight to South America, Faber succumbs to what he calls "e;fatigue phenomena,"e; losing touch with reality and 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 who for reasons he cannot explain or understand strongly attracts him. The basis for the film Voyager starring Sam Shepard, this novel "e;capture[s] that essential anguish of modern man which we find in the best of Camus"e; (Saturday Review). Translated by Michael Bullock