Nietzsche in Turin

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During 1888 in Turin, Italy, Nietzsche wrote three of his most important works - Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, and The Antichrist. As she recounts the dramatic births of those books, Chamberlain paints a portrait of the majestic baroque city in which Nietzsche spent the last sane year of his life before his famous mental breakdown damaged him permanently. Nietzsche in Turin is both a remarkable book of travel literature and a unique biography of one of our most celebrated, though often misunderstood, thinkers. In Chamberlain's account, Friedrich 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.

subjects: Intellectual life,  Philosophers,  Homes and haunts,  Biography,  Homes,  Filosofen,  Nietzsche, friedrich wilhelm, 1844-1900,  Italy, intellectual life,  Philosophers, germany

People: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Places: Italy,  Turin,  Turin (Italy)