Nietzsche on His Balcony

"Carlos Fuentes in all his books draws tight a tense conjunction of opposites: the sensuously beautiful and the horrifyingly ugly, innocence and evil, past and present, the familiar and the strange, nature and culture." -New York Times

"Mexico's greatest novelist." -The Guardian

"Carlos Fuentes is a major force in contemporary Mexican letters." -New York Times

"For many, many writers of my young generation, Carlos Fuentes was a master. We studied, pored over, all but traced his novels. Now, thirty years on, he is still master, undiminished." -Richard Ford

"In the late Fuentes’s last novel [Nietzsche on His Balcony], the author reflects on love, justice, and power by engaging, through his character Dante Loredano, in an imaginary dialog with German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche." -Starred Review, Library Journal

"In Fuentes . . . there is verbal eroticism, violence and pleasure, an encounter and an explosion. A chemical retort and a fireworks display."

-Octavio Paz

"What strikes the reader first in Fuentes's work may be his erudition and intellectual rigor, but what remains in his mind is his sympathy."

-Times Literary Supplement