Neustadt International Prize for Literature のいしゅたっとこくさいぶんがくしょう
Edition 9 (1986)
International literary awardLifetime achievementFor poetry, novels, and plays
Winners
1 peopleFrisch's novella follows Walter Faber, an engineer who trusts calculation over intuition until chance, guilt, and mortality force him to confront the limits of control.
A precise, unsettling novel about rationality colliding with fate.
228 pages
technology and humanitychance and fateidentityresponsibility