The result is shaky intellectual history and soporific fiction. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. The historical background (late 19th-century Vienna and Venice) is drearily indistinct, and insufficient use is made of potentially vivid supporting figures. When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession - Kindle edition by Yalom, Irvin D. 'When Nietzsche Wept' drowns in redundant minutiae, and its portrayal of these intellectual titans becomes cloyingly reductive: Breuer's torments emerge as a conventional midlife crisis, and Nie tzsche comes on like Clifton Webb engaging in one of his celebrated snits. Yalom (Author) 1,219 ratings See all formats and editions Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover from 28.12 4 Used from 28.12 Paperback 34.85 3 Used from 20.32 14 New from 34.85 Audio CD 87.45 1 Used from 134.00 3 New from 69. And so, for half the book's snail's-paced pages, the two men converse, trading accounts of their traumas. When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession Paperback 22 March 2011 by Irvin D. Troubled by his own fixation with a beautiful patient, Breuer proposes 'a professional exchange' during which he and Nietzsche will analyze and attempt to treat each other's emotional crises. Yalom contrives an unlikely fictional scenario in which the feminist intellectual Lou Salome persuades Breuer to act as 'doctor for despair' to her former paramour, the now-suicidal Nietzsche. Yalom, a psychiatrist who hit the best-seller lists with 'Love's Executioner: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy.' Though he concedes that his two characters never met in real life, Dr. Yalom.Basic Books, $20.įriedrich Nietzsche and Josef Breuer (the physician best remembered as Sigmund Freud's mentor) were surely more interesting characters than the cardboard whiners who are permitted to dominate this first novel by Irvin D.

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