Nietzsche's Kisses: A Novel
by Lance Olsen
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Author: Lance OlsenEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-02-28
ISBN: 1573661279
Number of pages: 230
Publisher: Fiction Collective 2
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Book Review: A page-turner of prose innovation
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a beautiful and unflinching work, carefully gorgeous in its language and human insight without once groveling for sentimentality. Every page houses another poem of a line ("my mother's love voice telling me that history always happens in the future"), which means that while this book can be read while maintaining 90 RPMs on a recumbent stationary bike, it should not be. Nietzsche breathes in this book, perhaps even to an extent he didn't permit in his own writing, and the ghost his breath keeps bated is Hitler himself. Until finally making an official appearance in the penultimate chapter, Weimar and the Reich haunt three massive sections of the tale, hinting at a future Germania that would extend beyond Nietzsche's life and be all he despised. He would've hated what was done to his work (his corpus-corpse) "after," and that gives this fiction an air of momentous inevitability. There's no beginning and no end: if mortality doesn't get you, the publishers will. This is a smart and lovely piece that dismisses despair in favor of...breath.
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