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- Published: 15 July 2025
- ISBN: 9780241752227
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 128
- RRP: $17.99
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Ecce Homo
How One Becomes What One is
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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
‘No, I don’t hate being black. I’m just tired of saying it’s beautiful. No, I don’t hate myself. I’m just tired of people bruising their knuckles on my jaw.’
A novella with the force of a screaming trumpet flare, Dambudzo Marechera’s seminal literary debut explores a body and spirit exiled from the land and the self. An inimitable and internationally admired writer, his profound ambivalence and wry, existential sensibility was forged in this iconic book.
- Published: 15 July 2025
- ISBN: 9780241752227
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 128
- RRP: $17.99
Categories:
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About the author
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was born near Leipzig. When he was twenty-four he was appointed to the chair of classical philology at Basel University. He published many works, including The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil. In 1889, Nietzsche collapsed and was subsequently institutionalized, spending the rest of his life in a condition of mental and physical paralysis. Works published after his death include Will to Power and his autobiography, Ecce Homo.