Nietzsche on his balcony
Subtitle: a novel
By: Carlos Fuentes ; translated from the Mexican Spanish by Ethan Shaskan Bumas and Alejandro Branger
Contributors: Bumas, E. Shaskan, 1961- translator; Branger, Alejandro, translator
Edition: First Dalkey Archive edition.
Series: Mexican literature series
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781628971583
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Social conditions; Politics and government; Revolutions; Fiction
Work titles: Federico en su balcón
Description: "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 nineteenth-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, permitted to revisit earth once a year for twenty-four hours in an enactment of his theory of eternal return. With tenderness and gallows humor, the novelist and the philosopher tell the story of the beginning of the revolution, its triumph, fanaticism, terror, and eventual unraveling. Nietzsche on His Balcony is a story of love, commitment, passion, betrayal, and hope."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Translation from the Spanish of: Federico en su balcón.