Griechenland als Antipode der Moderne in Homo faber von Max Frisch

Abstract

The structure of Max Frisch’s novel Homo faber rests on opposition: man and woman, technology and nature, progress and stagnation, coincidence and fate, modernity and antiquity, heaven and earth, a strong sense of personal identity and a sense of its loss. Greece has a special role in this context: Modernity and Greece seem to be opposed to each other and their semantic particularities group around the notions of nature, art and personal identity.