Nietzsche: A Novel (Contemporary Contin Philosophy)

Nietzsche: A Novel (Contemporary Contin Philosophy) by Krell, David Farrell. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780791430002.

This historical-biographical novel fleshes out the facts of Nietzsches life with fictional treatment. Using untraditional narrative techniques and interweaving medical reports, actual letters, and original new text, the novel takes the last years of Nietzsches life, the years of insanity, as a frame for the entire life. Krell offers a fictional account of the last ten years of Nietzsches life, the years of his paralysis and madness. Nietzsches regression during those years, from one of Europes leading intellectual lights to a passive mascot for his sisters "Nietzsche Archive," provides the frame for a narrative of his entire life. The author uses all the available medical documentation and the entire collection of works and letters in order to paint his portrait. While Nietzsche has been the object of several attempts at fictional biography, no attempt to date has been based on such careful research: even the highest flights of imagination in this work are based on scrupulous reading and reflection.