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The novel imagines the Cypriot days of Friedrich Nietzsche, who in reality never visited the island. There he tries to build a hot-air balloon, hoping that technology alone can lift him off the ground, since a balloon does not obey the law of the strongest. Meanwhile Europe's minds feed on his ideas: Sigmund Freud advises Kemal Atatürk to read Nietzsche but not to let him be translated, Richard Wagner builds Bayreuth while scorning his teaching, and figures from Stalin to Lou Salomé come under the charisma of the will to power. Presented as a manuscript reconstructed from a lost Argentine edition, with an afterword about Nietzsche's great-granddaughter, it is a mystification and a parable about the endless renewal of evil.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

268 pages in the original

Genres

Satire, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Cyprus

First published

2004 by Narodna knjiga – Alfa

Author's age

51 when first published

ISBN

9788633115131 (original)