Author: Primo Levi
Year: 1978
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Fiction, Award winners
Culture: Italy
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9780349100128
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Faussone, an Italian engineer, describes projects he has worked on all around the world and explains what he has learned in his travels.
"This is not a book for journalists. Civil servants, too, will feel uneasy while reading it, and as for lawyers, they will never sleep again. For it is about a man in his capacity as homo faber, a maker of things with his hands, and what has any of us ever made but words. I say it is 'about' the man who makes; truly, it is more a hymn of praise than a description, and not only because the toiler who is the hero of the book is a hero indeed - a figure, in his humanity, simplicity, worthy of inclusion in the catalogue of mythical giants alongside Hercules, Atlas, Gargantua and Orion. He is Faussone, a rigger." - Bernard Levin, THE TIMES
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