Nietzsche on His Balcony - Mexican Literature Series

On a hot, insomniac night at the Hotel Metropol, the novelist Carlos Fuentes steps onto his balcony only to find another man on the balcony next door. Theman asks for news of the social strife turning into revolution in the unnamed city below them. He's revealed 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, permitted to revisit earth once a year.