novel story - Homo Faber (Max Frisch)

Literature is a world of "artificial" structures, some built for us by experience. Language is the main tool of construction, but in this language, we find all kinds of symbolic constructions. In fact, it is not too different from the symbols (business) life.

The first stage of a novel often marks the foundation is the opening to reveal what is important and focus where it should. The most important symbol of the novel begins one of the airport. A club could be: a destination. And is still a factor, "Who is responsible?" Or what is the control, science and technology and humanity. ... Or (My own interpretation), as the cultural influences of technology?

Walter Faber, the main character waiting on a plane to the southern United States beginning for a connecting flight to Venezuela. The flight is part of normal business - he worked as an engineer for the UNESCO - but the journey is also one away from his girlfriend (Ivy), which are no longer interested, as it stated that he wants to marry her.

The passenger next to him is a German - Walter who shows no interest in the first place - is poised for his old friend Walter and reveals to the reader the problem, why do not want it to get married: her thoughts back to a woman he has not then . marry Several trips during their follow-up and the reader learns more about his past.

The form of the novel is well with the theme of (self-) control adjusted. It is obvious that the narrator (Walter himself), to inform the reader about the recent events, but leave the reader unsure of how they develop.

Walter Faber, an engineer and the slogan "Homo Faber", says this about promoting from nature: the man who makes or creates, from the nature in which the control is a chance. The time is always present, starting with the delay of the aircraft in the first scene. And a scene where they represent is the place where Walter teaches a "woman" on the death rate from snake bite (nature), "only a 10% chance, but this woman is not interested in these rationalizations:" I have a daughter. "

The novel draws the reader into the world of the engineer, guided by rational reasons for change: it becomes aware that life beyond the technology of human interaction.

Another symbol is that the novel begins in the U.S. and ends in Greece. One interpretation is that the limitation of the "modern" USA and the American dream that anyone their own lives next to the "old" Greeks (culture to build). The American way of live is explicitly mentioned in Walter's visits to Cuba. Another symbolic scene.