Publication

1999-05-01 - Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Language

English

Word Count

80,000 words, Guess

Page Count

320 pages

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing5068
  • WikidataQ50326783
  • Goodreads9720

Classifications

  • LCC
  • DDC891.8/635

Description

Interweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in a sardonic and erotic tale of two couples—Tomas and Teresa, and Sabina and her Swiss lover, Gerhart.

Description

A young woman obsessed with a man torn between his love for her and his womanizing; one of his mistresses and her faithful lover--these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel.

First Sentence

The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs as infinitum!

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