Identity, Intimacy and Domicile – Notes on the Phenomenology of Home

Abstract

Identity was the recurrent theme in the literary work of Max Frisch, who, incidentally, was an architect by training. In his book Homo Faber ( 1961 ) Frisch portrays a Unesco expert, an engineer – the symbol of Modern Man – who continuously travels around the world on his missions. He is a rational and realistic man whose life seems to be under perfect rational control. However, gradually he looses contact with locality and home, and finally, with his own identity. He ends up falling in love with his own daughter whom he does not recognize as the tragic consequence of his loss of home and roots. Their indecent love ends violently in the daughter’s death.

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