Resumen de Homines fabri: doppelheld und Parallelstruktur in Max Frischs Homo faber
The singular of the novel¿s Latin title has not stopped suggesting ¿even to professional readers¿ that it refers to Walter Faber exclusively. Johanna Landsberg Piper¿s pet name for him, Homo faber, seems to support that interpretation. The word homo, however, primarily meaning a human being, also includes Johanna in this case. She herself, like Walter, is indeed a homo faber, and responsible for her own fate. Consequently, the structure of Max Frisch¿s novel is entirely modelled on the pattern of two equivalent protagonists, as this study tries to demonstrate in detail. Major narrative motifs, which have thus far been considered with regard to...
