Nietzsche in Turin
Subtitle: an intimate biography
By: Lesley Chamberlain.
Edition: 1st Picador USA ed.
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 -- Homes and haunts -- Italy -- Turin.; Philosophers -- Italy -- Turin -- Biography.; Turin (Italy) -- Intellectual life.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-256).
Previously published: London : Quartet Books, 1996.