A fascinating classic account of Nietzsche's travels in Italy at the end of the nineteenth century, where he found inspiration for his major works
First published in 1929, Nietzsche in Italy has never been out of print in France but has never been translated into English until now.
Endlessly fascinating and highly readable, Nietzsche in Italy will enthrall anyone interested in Nietzsche's relationship with the country that enriched his soul more than any other.
For fifteen years, after his first visit to the country in 1876, Nietzsche was repeatedly and irresistibly drawn back to Italy's climate and lifestyle. It was there that he composed his most famous works, including Thus Spake Zarathustra and Ecce Homo.
This classic biography follows the troubled philosopher from Rome, to Florence, via Venice, Sorrento, Genoa, Sicily and finally to the tragic denouement in Turin, the city in which Nietzsche found a final measure of contentment before his irretrievable collapse.
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The essay-form allows Pourtalčs a type of rhetorical flourish you wouldnt expect in a traditional biography [ as he] describes Nietzsches increasingly iconoclastic thought process, expressed throughout the 1880s in such explosive books as Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil and On the Genealogy of Morality. --Wall Street Journal
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I A Traveller Without Baggage |
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II Port-Royal of Sorrento |
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IV Piccolo Santo Genovese |
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V Zarathustra--Lover of Carmen |
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VII Dead Gods and the Living Prophet |
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VIII He Leaves a Country Inhabited by No One |
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IX All Problems Transposed in Feeling |
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| Nietzsche Chronology |
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Guy de Pourtalčs (1881-1941) was born in Berlin to an aristocratic family who later settled in Switzerland. After attending universities in Germany, Pourtalčs moved to Paris in 1905 to study literature at the Sorbonne. He published his first novel in 1910, married in 1911 and, claiming Huguenot ancestry, acquired French citizenship in 1912. During the First World War he served as a translator for the British army in Flanders. Victim of a gas attack at Poperinghe in 1915, he was later diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis. Pourtalčs soon departed Paris for the slower pace of the Chāteau d'Etoy on lac Léman, where between 1926-1932 he applied himself to romantic biographies of musicians. Pourtalčs was prolific as an essayist, reviewer and polemicist, whilst maintaining a vast correspondence with other European writers including Stefan Zweig. In 1937 his autobiographical novel La Pźche miraculeuse finally won him a major literary prize, but the loss of his only son during the battle for France in May 1940 sent Pourtalčs into a steeper decline. He died in Lausanne in June 1941.
WILL STONE is a poet, essayist and literary translator of French, Franco-Belgian and German literature. Will's previous translations from French include Rilke in Paris, by Maurice Betz (Hesperus, 2011/Pushkin, 2019), Emile Verhaeren: Poems (Arc, 2013), and Georges Rodenbach: Poems (Arc, 2017). Those from German include Messages from a Lost World: Europe on the Brink by Stefan Zweig (Pushkin, 2016), Friedrich Hölderlin's Life, Poetry and Madness by Wilhelm Waiblinger (Hesperus, 2018), Surrender to Night: Collected Poems by Georg Trakl (Pushkin, 2019), Poems to Night by Rainer Maria Rilke (Pushkin, 2020) and Encounters and Destinies: A Farewell to Europe by Stefan Zweig (Pushkin, 2020). Will has published four critically appraised collections of poetry, the first of which, Glaciation (Salt, 2007/Shearsman, 2016), won a major international prize. He has contributed essays and reviews to the London Magazine, the TLS and other publications while his poems have most recently appeared in Poetry Review and the Spectator.
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