Description:
Minimal library distinctions, pocket intact (all library info on pocket), small cracked front hinge, else appears as unread, no other obvious imperfections, in fine light brown boards, DJ & Poly Protector. Displays no significant surface/edge/wear, as shown.KIRKUS REVIEW
The celebrated baritone recounts the story of the stormy seven-year friendship between Wagner and Nietzsche, with chief emphasis on the intellectual development of the latter. He examines Nietzsche the young thinker struggling to adapt and correct Schopenhauer's ideas on the relationship between will and art, aided by the inspiring example of Wagner. Effortfully but sometimes pungently, he narrates the course of Nietzsche's intellectual and personal disillusionment with Wagner the "betrayer" of integrated, affirmative art. For Fischer-Dieskau, Nietzsche is the prophet par excellence of the artistic quandaries of our time, and it was the inner wrestlings with Wagner that crystallized his sweeping "revaluation… Read More
