Nietzsche On His Balcony

Name: Nietzsche On His Balcony
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Carlos Fuentes
ISBN: 9781520049649

Author: Carlos Fuentes

Narrator: Robert Fass

Unabridged: 9 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 12/09/2016

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

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.

About Carlos Fuentes

The author of more than a dozen novels and story collections, Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012) was Mexico's most celebrated novelist and critic. He received numerous honors and awards throughout his lifetime, including the Miguel de Cervantes Prize and the Latin Literary Prize.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Eylül

"Bir devrimin kötü tarafı, her bireyin ahlakını ortaya çıkarması ve onu kendi etiğinin kolektif etik olduğuna inandırmasıdır. Oysaki yegane politik etik sana başta söylediğimdir: beklenmeyeni yapmak. Hiçbir şey yapmadan yönetmek. Şaşırtan ama belli aralıklarla yinelenen eylemlerle kandır ve mutlu et......more

Goodreads review by MJ

Master Mexican novelist Carlos “The Don” Fuentes’s last novel ends one of the most significant careers in world letters with a spectacular flourish of a whimper. Encountering the pessimist’s pessimist Friedrich Nietzsche on his balcony one evening, the two muse on the theory of the “eternal return”......more

Goodreads review by Jim

Nietzsche on His Balcony is the last book by Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes. It was published posthumously. Although I have liked everything else I have read by the author, this book did not hold together for me. Consider the framing device: The narrator (Carlos Fuentes?) is standing on a balcony at......more

Goodreads review by Maria

"...Federico ha muerto! Lo dice Dios." Creo que Carlos Fuentes nos presenta en Federico en su balcón una propuesta bastante interesante. Un diálogo entre el autor mismo y Friedrich Nietzsche en el presente donde, a través de sus personajes y una creciente revolución llena de simbolismos, hace un anál......more