When Nietzsche wept by Irvin D. Yalom Recently I've read the novel called When Nietzsche wept by Irvin Yalom. I think that a text will be pretty hard for me and decided to read Russian version. The action is in Europe of XIX century, mostly in a Vienna, Austria. Professor Breuer is a significant and respectfull doctor. He got a strange offer to take care of unknowing phylosophist Nietzsche. It should be a soul treatment, but looks like health care, because Nietzsche rejects any penetrations in his privacy. Breuer starts working on that, using psyhoanalisis(a prototype, because a psyhoanalisis was founded later). But Nietzsche hadn't wishes to open his soul to anybody else. Breuer spent more time in discussing with Nietzsche and slightly became a his patient. Breuer was suffering from midlife crisis with all related problems like a cold relationships with his wife, disappoitment about becoming oldness, feeling that he has waste his life doing things that he really don't want to do, etc. Nietzsche helps Breuer to find origin of his problems to eliminate them. Despite the novel is a fiction, it contains many references for real occurances and personalities. Yalom greatly connected all that things in the entire story. I got a great pleasure to read this book.