![]() ![]() “ When Nietzsche Wept is the best dramatization of a great thinker’s thought since Sartre’s The Freud Scenario. ![]() The element of surprise is a magical, jolting moment.” - Washington Post Book World All of the main characters are real historical figures, and Yalom has been reasonably faithful to both their lives and their characteristics. Yalom (Harper Collins, 1992) Review by Tad Beckman (copyright 1995) Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711 This is an historical novel. ![]() “An intelligent, carefully researched, richly imagined novel.” - Boston Globe When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession by Irvin D. In When Nietzsche Wept, Irvin Yalom blends fact and fiction, atmosphere and suspense, to unfold an unforgettable story about the redemptive power of friendship. Only through facing his own inner demons can the gifted healer begin to help his patient. When he agrees to treat Nietzsche with his experimental “talking cure,” Breuer never expects that he too will find solace in their sessions. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe’s greatest living philosopher, is on the brink of suicidal despair, unable to find a cure for the headaches and other ailments that plague him. Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career. In 19th-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era. ![]()
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