The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-05-24

all sure they have really emerged.
They show only that they have be-
gun a new love affair, and there
: is some intimation that an abor-
ton viii not be necessary in this
case as when the villain had an
affair with the girl. The hero might
marry her.
Perhaps the real truth of this
book is that it has little to do with
the Vie de Boheme even today. 1t
is back alley perversion in a
small section Of New York which
involves men who have shades of
the neurotic. the gangster and the
bum about them. This reviewer
has lived in both New York and
Paris during these same years and
was for the most part in the COM
pany of artists. writer's and must
clans many of them were Sue
cessful and some tops in their field.
If they ran into the hipster variety
they usually headed in the other
direction.
Author BroSsard writes clearly
and effectively. He is always eco
nomical and short sentenced. All
his emotional scenes are handled
with restraint. 1t is interesting to
know that the figures he depicts
move in a section of New York.
Eut perhaps next time Brossard
will remove himself from the spi-
ritual sterility and joylessness
which he here depicts, come up for
some fresh air, and find out that
he has only been in one back al
ley. There is still a lot of beauty
and poetry in the lives of the men
and women who write and paint
and compose, and in the lives of
the half-artists who form the cho-
rus and people the milieu in which
the real artist often performs.
(MY SISTER AND | by Fried
rich Nietzsche. translated from the
| Grman by DIR. Oscar Levy, me-
moirs, published by Bears Head
Books, New York City. 256 pp)
An old platitude in freshman psy-
Geological textbooks explains there
is fine line between genius and
madnss. This recently reSurrected
book Of Nietzche'S memoirs is an
amazing demonstration of agility
in leaping back and forth over that
line.
Nietzsche is known to the aver
age person chiefly as the origina-
tor of the superman theory, per
version of which Hitler followed
in the Nazi delirium which he gave
recently to the German people
This book is purported to have
been written by the German phi
lospher in his. last years in the
madhouSe. Inasmuch as Nietzs.
ches sister had held Ecce Homo,
his personal Interpretation of the
Christ story, from publication. he
did not trust MY Sister and T. to
her. Instead he gave it to a man
who was leaving the institution,
and asked him to have it published.
After various peregrinatlons which
included trips TO Canada and the
United States, and after seclusion
in truck bottoms and desk pigeon
holes, it was published many years
after the philosophers death.
There is still some contention on
the part of critics that the con
tents Of the book are combination
of notes and remembered CONVEX
cations with NietzSche, rather than
a text completely composed and
/ edited by himself. The digressionS
the uneven quality. the brilliant
lines suddenly next to lines that
seem the literary froth of a mad
man, give some SubStantiatlon 10
this opinion, The hook does some
times seem TO consist of notes
written on pieces of paper in a
variety of moods and degrees Of
sanity, stuffed into a desk drawer
and then put into book form with
little editing, selection or shaping
up. However. this may only be due
( TO the general chaotic state of Mr..
Niet1sehe's brilliant mind when
The book was written. The transla-
tor who is an expert on the sub
lect believes il TO be a genuine
authentic document written By the
philosopher himself.
There is slight story thread
running through the volume which
says in short that has madness "a as
caused by his unnatural boyhood
relation With his sister and BY a
breeding hatred for his mother
ms. 81 course, vii he interestirG
10 sensation seekers psychologist,
ard people Who var. to knog tho
mans life 80 Slil they be frteres,
cd n the occasional pasxa xex a her
ne seems to have definitely jump
&C over into the nadmsnS side o.
TIE line BaI NletzSche scholars wiI
also appreciate the large bulk al
TIE book which consists q inter
e@sing Qualifications and supple
menis Ia ais philosophy.
A very yala@ols yolume b1t tbs