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Nietzsche's Footfalls
Nietzsche's Footfalls
Nietzsche's Footfalls
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How strange that one of the finest books on Nietzsche should be a novel – Jason Wirth (Seattle University)

Only the day after tomorrow belongs to  me.  Some are born  posthumously.

Nietzsche's Footfalls

During the final decade of Nietzsche's life, when he was mad, his sister created an archive in his name. She placed him upstairs as a living exhibit while she beavered away in the rooms beneath rewriting his work and establishing him as a great name in the new world of Nazi Germany. Her efforts gave him a 'posthumous existence' totally at odds with his own expressed desires.

This image is at the core of the book which deals with various posthumous lives, the way in which intentions change unexpectedly in a complex interwoven set of relationships some obvious, some less so: with his sister, Elizabeth who married an anti-semitic agitator called Förster and went out to Paraguay to found an Aryan colony and later, after he had committed suicide and her brother had gone mad, she returned to Germany and assiduously turned him into an icon for Nazi thinking. another with Richard Wagner who he began by loving and later rejected. Other paths also cross and recross.

The book also deals with Nietzsche's madness and how (madly) things change into their opposites, for example, how anti-anti-semitism can change into anti-semitism and Nazism, then into a reaction against the holocaust and then into a new kind of revisionism and denial.

Even though all the information here is true, it is written as a continuous meditation - as a work of imagination. The text is continuous and includes small biographies, philosophic meditations, summaries, quotes, some history plus descriptions. or his writings in unexpected ways.

The aim is to write a story of parallel posthumous existences and the way they all interrelate.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherDavid Pollard
Release dateApr 16, 2023
ISBN9780951449929
Nietzsche's Footfalls
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David Pollard

David Pollard has been furniture salesman, accountant, TEFL teacher and university lecturer. He got his three degrees from the University of Sussex and has since taught at the universities of Sussex, Essex and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he was a Lady Davis Scholar. His doctoral thesis was published as: The Poetry of Keats: Language and Experience (Harvester and Barnes & Noble). He has also published A KWIC Concordance to the Harvard Edition of Keats’ Letters, a novel, Nietzsche’s Footfalls (Self-published) and seven volumes of poetry, patricides, Risk of Skin, Self-Portraits and Broken Voices (all from Waterloo Press), bedbound (from Perdika), Three Artists (from Lapwing) and Finis-terre (from Agenda translated into Portuguese - Lumme Editor and Spanish - Rialta). He has translated from Gallego, French and German. He has also been published in other volumes and in learned journals and many reputable poetry magazines. He divides his time between Brighton on the South coast of England and a village on the Rias of Galicia.

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    So far, wonderful. It seems the book does three things; It is a biography of Nietzsche and the people around him, particularly his sister and Wagner; it is a history of his time and it is a study of his philosophy and how it has been interpreted. If it continues thus it will deserve its stars

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