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Tom Robbins' Chink: A Posthumous Zarathustra
(1979)
  • Charles S Taylor, Wright State University - Main Campus
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Abstract

This essay examines the ideas of one of the central characters in Tom Robbins’ 1977 novel, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues/ in relation to the thinking of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Zarathustra. It makes no argument for any influence of Nietzsche upon Robbins but rather considers similarities in thought as such.

This essay was first published by The Enigma Press, the private-press of Earl R. Nitschke, Professor of Printmaking at Central Michigan University in a limited edition.

Keywords
  • Tom Robbins,
  • Nietzsche,
  • philosophy and literature
Disciplines
Publication Date
1979
Citation Information
Charles S Taylor. "Tom Robbins' Chink: A Posthumous Zarathustra" (1979)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/charles_taylor/4/