The Monkey’s Wrench (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Primo Levi
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Philosophical realism
- Time of Work: The 1970’s, with reminiscences of earlier decades
- Setting: The Soviet Union, India, Africa, Alaska, and Italy
- Genres: Long fiction, Philosophical realism
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Africa or Africans, Writing, Storytelling, India or East Indian people, Work or workers, Italy or Italians, Technology, Alaska, Arctic, Soviet Union or Soviets, Construction or construction workers
- Locales: Africa, Soviet Union, Italy, Alaska, India
Characters Discussed
Libertino Faussone (lee-behr- TEE-noh fahew-SOH-nay), a rigger of giant steel structures such as cranes and suspension bridges. Faussone is an independent man, tall, thin, tanned, proud of his physical skills, and contemptuous of incompetent bosses, workers, and designers. The thirty-five-year-old Faussone enjoys a variety of professional and personal adventures as he travels around the world setting up monumental steel constructions. This “novel” is, in fact, a collection of separate tales connected mainly by the adventurous personality and forcefully...
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