Nietzsche on His Balcony
Carlos Fuentes author E Shaskan Bumas translator Alejandro Branger translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press
Published:29th Dec '16
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
On a hot, insomniac night at the Hotel Metropol, the novelist Carlos Fuentes steps onto his balcony only to find another man on the balcony next door. The other man asks for news of the social strife turning into revolution in the unnamed city below them. He reveals himself as the 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, permitted to revisit earth once a year for 24 hours based on his theory of eternal return. With tenderness and gallows humor, the novelist and the philosopher unflinchingly tell the story of the beginning of the revolution, its triumph, fanaticism, terror, and retrenchment: a story of love, friendship, family, commitment, passion, corruption, betrayal, violence, and hope.
Mexico's greatest novelist.
* The Guardian *Wildly, intriguingly spun political-philosophical take
* The Complete ReviISBN: 9781628971583
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192 pages