Nietzsche in Turin

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uring 1888 in Turin, Italy, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote three of his most important works—Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, and The Antichrist. In this accessible, moving biography, Lesley Chamberlain examines with passion and insight the mind of a genius at its creative pinnacle. In her account, Nietzsche emerges as a gentle, tortured man, dominated by his rigorous mind and his love of music, and soothed by the strangely otherworldly city of Turin.

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"Elegant and sympathetic [Nietzsche] emerges as a kind, awkward man with an
immense, unsatisfied hunger for love." —Alain de Botton, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"[An] excellent account of Nietzsche's last days [Chamberlain] succeeds to a surprising degree in communicating a sense of the man and the thinker, in all his strangeness." —John Banville, The New York Review of Books
"[A] moving account [Chamberlain] restores a human face to the maligned philosopher She is an acute literary and psychological interpreter... Tovább

Fülszöveg

I.J,,
uring 1888 in Turin, Italy, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote three of his most important works—Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, and The Antichrist. In this accessible, moving biography, Lesley Chamberlain examines with passion and insight the mind of a genius at its creative pinnacle. In her account, Nietzsche emerges as a gentle, tortured man, dominated by his rigorous mind and his love of music, and soothed by the strangely otherworldly city of Turin.

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"Elegant and sympathetic [Nietzsche] emerges as a kind, awkward man with an
immense, unsatisfied hunger for love." —Alain de Botton, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"[An] excellent account of Nietzsche's last days [Chamberlain] succeeds to a surprising degree in communicating a sense of the man and the thinker, in all his strangeness." —John Banville, The New York Review of Books
"[A] moving account [Chamberlain] restores a human face to the maligned philosopher She is an acute literary and psychological interpreter of Nietzsche's work." —Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Examiner d Chronicle
"In this fascinating 'intimate biography' Chamberlain discovers that the philosopher of the Ubermensch was actually Human."
—The New Yorker

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studied German and Russian at Exeter and Oxford, and speaks five languages. She is a regular contributor on literature to The Times and The Times Literary Supplement (both of London). Vissza