Nietzsche on his balcony

Master Mexican novelist Carlos "The Don" Fuentes's last novel ends one of the most significant careers in world letters with a spectacular flourish of a whimper. Encountering the pessimist's pessimist Friedrich Nietzsche on his balcony one evening, the two muse on the theory of the "eternal return" (infinite recurrence of the universe), and invent a story of a revolution featuring a cast of strange and beguiling characters.

Surreal tale of Nietzsche and the author meeting outside their respective abodes on balconies. This takes place after Nietzsche's death but he gets to come back for one night per year as some sort of "eternal return".