cover image When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession

When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession

Irvin D. Yalom. Harper Perennial, $14 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-06-097550-0

This talky first novel by psychotherapist Yalom is set in 1882, when Joseph Breuer, an eminent physician and mentor of Sigmund Freud, strives to apply his recently discovered talking cure to the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. (Aug.)