Nietzsche’s Letters: 1886
Versão em Português
Fonte: The Nietzsche Channel
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Sils Maria, July 14, 1886: Letter to Franz Overbeck
Dear friend,
I too would very much have liked to see you again this year, but I know that it won’t work out. My plan to spend the summer in the Thuringian woods and the fall in Munich is foundering on the force majeure (or mineure) of my illness. Life in present-day Germany is thoroughly unwholesome for me; its effect is poisoning and crippling. And whenever I am there my contempt for mankind grows to dangerous proportions. [...]
So far Fritzsch has not been able to come to terms with Schmeitzner. But perhaps he will yet, since he seems to place great value on having “the entire Nietzsche” as well as the entire Wagner in his publishing house—a togetherness which thoroughly pleases me. All in all, R. W. [Wagner] has so far been the only one, at least the first, who had some feeling for what I am like. (Of which Rohde, for example, to my regret, does not seem to have even the remotest idea, never mind any feeling of obligation toward me.) In this university atmosphere the best people degenerate: I continually feel that the background and ultimate power even in such types as R. is a damned general indifference and a total lack of faith in their own stuff. That someone like I has been living among problems diu noctuque incubando and has his distress and happiness there alone—who would have any empathy for that! R. Wagner, as I’ve mentioned, did; and that is why Tribschen [where Wagner lived] was such a recreation for me, while now I no longer have any place or people that are any recreation for me. — [....]
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Sils-Maria, August 6, 1886: Letter to Franz Overbeck
Dear Friend,
If only I could give you an idea of my feeling of loneliness! I have no one to whom I feel related, as little among the living as among the dead. This is unimaginably terrifying. Only constant exercise in learning how to bear this feeling, and a step-by-step development from childhood on in my capacity for bearing it—this alone enables me to comprehend how I have not as yet perished on account of it.— For the rest, the task for the sake of which I live confronts me clearly: it is a fact of unimaginable sadness, albeit transfigured by the consciousness that there is greatness in it, if ever greatness dwelled in a mortal’s task.—
Faithfully, Your F. N.
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Sil-Maria, September 24, 1886: Letter to Malwilda von Meysenbug
Esteemed friend.
This is my last day here in Sils-Maria; all the birds have flown; the fall sky is gloomy; it’s getting cold,—so “the hermit of Sils-Maria” has to be on his way.
[....] I have recently sent you a book. Its title is Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future. (Forgive me! It isn’t that you’re supposed to read it, much less give me your opinion of it. People will dare read it, I suppose, some time around the year 2000…) [....]
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Nice (France), November 14, 1886: Letter to Franz Overbeck
Dear friend,
[....] The antinomy of my current situation, of the form of my existence, consists in this: everything that I need in order to be philosophus radicalis—freedom from profession, wife, child, society, fatherland, faith, etc. etc.—I equally suffer as deprivations, inasmuch as I have the good fortune to be a living creature and not merely an analyzing machine or objectivizing apparatus. I have to add that this juxtaposition of necessities and deprivations is driven to extremes by the lack of an even moderately durable health. For in my moments of health I feel the deprivations less keenly. Further, I absolutely do not know how to bring together the five conditions that would restore my delicate health to a bearable modicum. Finally, the worst possible situation would prevail if in order to attain those five conditions of health I had to deprive myself of the eight freedoms of the philosophus radicalis.— This strikes me as the most objective account of my rather complicated situation … Excuse me! Or, rather, you may have a good laugh at this! [....]
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