Resumo de Homo Faber

From 1933 to 1935, Faber works as an Assistant at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and meets the arts student Hanna. One day, Hanna admits that she is pregnant; Faber decides to marry Hanna. But she hesitates. Faber receives an offer by the UNESCO to work in Baghdad and accepts it. This leads to the split with Hanna. Shortly before his departure, Faber asks his friend Joachim to take care of Hanna - and Hanna agrees to abort their child. The book starts with a journal-like description of Faber's travels in America in spring 1957. On a flight from New York to Mexico, a plane makes a forced landing in the desert of Mexico. During the following stay he meets the German Herbert. It turns out that he is on the way to visit his brother Joachim in the jungle - Faber's friend from who he hadn't heard since 1936! Faber decides to accompany Herbert. After an oddysey through the wilderness they reach Joachim's plantation. But Joachim has hanged himself. Herbert decides to manage the plantation. Because Faber wants to secape his lover Yvi at a stopover in New York, he takes a cruise to Europe. On this journey, he meets the young woman Sabeth. Absolutely unexpectedly, he proposes to Sabeth at the end of the journey, although Sabeth was traveling in male company. Through a number of coincidences, Faber and Sabeth meet again in Paris and Faber decides to go on vacation and accompany Sabeth on a road trip through Europe. Because of a foreboding, he asks Sabeth for the name of her mother: Hanna. Faber still hopes that Hanna has aborted their child, but it turnes out soon that Sabeth is his daughter. In Greece, where Hanna lives now, a poisonous snake bites Sabeth and she falls down a slope. Faber can bring her to a hospital, where she dies soon after (May 28) from a not diagnosed fracture at the base of the skull. In the hospital, he meets Hanna again. The Second stop is shaped Faber's thoughts about his life - and is also about the time in which he writes the first part of the book, the "First Stop." After stays in Cuba, Dusseldorf and Zurich, among others, he arrives in Athens again. He seems to be willing to change his life - he has announced to be friends with Hanna who accuses him of killing his and her daughter. Faber breaks down in Athens and is brought to hospital. It is found out that he suffers from stomach cancer. Surgery is said to be successful in 94.6% of all cases - so he tells himself again and again to marry Hanna afterwards. Although the book has an open end "08.05am: They are coming," one can assume (source 3) that Faber does not survive and his death forebodings come true. The whole work is structure chronologically. Only the Second Stop contains two parallel independent stories, told step by step switching between the two stories: the time before coming to the hospital and the time in the hospital. Faber's thoughts seem like journal entries in which - matching Faber's personality - a technical, sterile language is dominant, which is hardly brushed up with metaphors.

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