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Nietzsche on his balcony : a novel / Carlos Fuentes ; translated from the Mexican Spanish by Ethan Shaskan Bumas and Alejandro Branger.
Van Pelt Library PQ7217.F793 F4313 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fuentes, Carlos, author.
- Series:
- Mexican literature series
- Standardized Title:
- Federico en su balcón. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900--Fiction.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.
- Fuentes, Carlos--Fiction.
- Fuentes, Carlos.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
- Revolutions--Fiction.
- Revolutions.
- Politics and government.
- Social conditions.
- Mexico.
- Mexico--Social conditions--21st century--Fiction.
- Mexico--Politics and government--21st century--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- iv, 332 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First Dalkey Archive edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Victoria, TX : Dalkey Archive Press, 2016.
- 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."-- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9781628971583
- 1628971584
- OCLC:
- 958932376
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