Homo Faber Official

Faber’s journey is an existential crisis where his self-image as a "man of the future" collapses under the weight of his past.

Walter Faber, a highly rational Swiss engineer working for UNESCO, believes only in logic, mathematics, and probability. His life unravels after a series of "improbable" events—a plane crash in the Mexican desert, a chance meeting with his former lover’s brother, and a tragic romance with a young woman named Sabeth, who he later discovers is his own daughter. Key Themes: Homo Faber

Faber’s insistence that everything is manageable through engineering is shattered by coincidences that mirror ancient Greek tragedies (specifically Oedipus Rex ). Faber’s journey is an existential crisis where his

In a modern context, Homo Faber is a major international exhibition organized by the Michelangelo Foundation. believes only in logic