After the title character's young lover Sabeth dies following her fall from an embankment, the title character discovers from his former lover Hanna Piper that Sabeth was his daughter.
The final pages of this novel represent a diary by the protagonist in which he bemoans the loss of his Baby Hermes briefcase and awaits an operation on a stomach tumor. On a flight to Mexico City, the plane carrying this novel's protagonist is forced to land in Tamaulipas, after which the protagonist and Herbert Hencke trek out into the jungle to find Herbert's cousin Joachim, only to discover that Joachim has hanged himself. After the title character's young lover Sabeth dies following her fall from an embankment, the title character discovers from his former lover Hanna Piper that Sabeth was his daughter. Early in this novel, its title character claims not to believe in "providence or fate," and says that "as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulas of probability." FTP, name this novel about a Swiss UNESCO technocrat named Walter, which was written by Max Frisch and given a title which translates as "man, the maker."
The final pages of this novel represent a diary by the protagonist in which he bemoans the loss of his Baby Hermes briefcase and awaits an operation on a stomach tumor.
Homo Faber