Walter Faber

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Walter Faber is the rational, technocratic engineer whose emotionally detached worldview is shattered by tragic events in Max Frisch’s novel "Homo Faber."

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
literary character
protagonist
appearsIn Homo Faber
associatedWith modernity
postwar Europe
characterTrait emotionally detached
countryOfFictionalActivity Greece
Guatemala
Italy
Mexico
Switzerland
United States of America
surface form: United States
createdBy Max Frisch
createdInWorkLanguage German
experiences breakdown of rational certainties
confrontation with chance
fictionalUniverse Homo Faber
surface form: Homo Faber universe
firstPublicationOfWork 1957
gender male
hasAdaptation Homo Faber (1991 film character)
includedInGenre existential novel
psychological novel
languageOfOriginalWork German
literaryPeriod 20th-century literature
medium novel
moralArc from detachment to painful self-awareness
name Walter Faber self-link
narrativePerspective retrospective account
narrativeRole first-person narrator
nationality Swiss
occupation engineer
plotFunction embodiment of rationalist worldview
relationship father of Sabeth
lover of Hanna
symbolizes belief in calculability of life
limits of technological thinking
themeAssociation emotional repression
existentialism
rationality versus fate
technology and humanity
undergoes personal crisis
tragic events
worldview rational
technocratic

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Homo Faber mainCharacter Walter Faber
Walter Faber name Walter Faber self-link
Voyager mainCharacter Walter Faber