Walter Faber is an emotionally detached engineer forced by a string of coincidences to embark on a journey through his past. The basis for director Volker Schlšndorff’s movie Voyager. Translated by Michael Bullock. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Homo Faber: A report

Literature & Fiction

MAX FRISCH

Literary

Penguin

The novel tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who believes in rational, calculated world. Strange events undermine his security - an emergency landing in a Mexican desert against all odds, his friend Joachim hangs himself in the Mexican jungle, and he falls in love with a woman who dies of a concussion, he has an incestuous affair. Finally Faber becomes ill with stomach cancer, but it is too late for him to change his life.

Homo Faber: A Report

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Whistle clean inside; outside near fine with mild crease along spine. Gently read. Wrappers are immaculate,shiny, stiff, and unrubbed. Written in German, this play written by Max Frisch has an extensive German to English Vocabulary at the back of the book. (Titled in English as "The Fireraisers," "The Firebugs," " Firebugs," or "The Arsonists.") Written in 1953, first as a radio play, then adapted for television and the stage (1958) as a play in six scenes. This dark comedy is set in a town that is being regularly attacked by arsonists. Disguised as door-to-door salesmen (hawkers), they talk their way into people's homes and settle down in the attic, where they set about the destruction of the house. Written in the years following WWII as a metaphor for Nazism and fascism, the play shows how "normal" citizens can be taken in by evil. has an extensive Vocabulary (German to English) in back

Biedermann und die Brandstifter: Ein Lehrstück ohne Lehre mit einem Nachspiel (German Edition)

Houghton Mifflin College Div.

Reissue of this Methuen classic to tie in with a major new production 
The republic of Andorra is invaded by totalitarian forces. The populace capitulates to the anti-Semitism of the aggressor and betrays Andri, the foundling son of the local schoolmaster. But Andri it seems, is not a Jew at all.
Andorra explores the mechanism of racism with the story of a non-Jew brought up as a Jew, who falls victim to anti-Semitic hostility.

Andorra (Modern Plays)

Humor & Entertainment

Methuen Drama

Homo faber ein Bericht

Suhrkamp

From the author of Man in the Holocene, an examination of the effects of a crime of passion. Translated by Geoffrey Skelton. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.

Bluebeard

British & Irish

Methuen Publishing, Ltd.

Andorra (20th Century Texts, German)

Dramas & Plays

Routledge

Three plays: The fire raisers, Count Oederland [and] Andorra.

METHUEN

Biography A Game

Suhrkamp Verlag

Gottlieb Biedermann, a German businessman, tries to ignore the fact that the two men in his attic are arsonists, in hopes of preventing them from burning down his house

The Firebugs: A Morality Without a Moral, A Play

Hill and Wang

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