Bibliograph

Nietzsche on his balcony, Carlos Fuentes

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Nietzsche on his balcony, Carlos Fuentes

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Nietzsche on his balcony

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Carlos Fuentes

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

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