by Irvin D. Yalom · Edicions de 1984, S. L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788416987214
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In Venice, 1882, Lou Salomé, an attractive and passionate woman, organizes a mysterious meeting with Dr. Josef Breuer, one of the pioneers of psychoanalysis, to request that he attend to Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche is in a deep personal crisis. Influenced by the new theories of his young protégé Sigmund Freud, Breuer accepts Salomé's risky proposal: to psychoanalyze Nietzsche without him knowing. Despite fearing that his patient will not find comfort in the sessions, Breuer manages to get the philosopher to confront his ghosts. The meetings become intense dialectical chess games. But who is the master? Who heals whom? Irvin D. Yalom intertwines reality and fiction to narrate a story about the redeeming power of friendship through the voices of great intellectuals of the 19th century.
Irvin David Yalom is an American existential psychiatrist who is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, as well as author of both fiction and nonfiction.
