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Title: The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche.

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Language: English

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CASE OF WAGNER, NIETZSCHE CONTRA WAGNER, AND SELECTED APHORISMS.***

*Friedrich Nietzsche*

*I: The Case Of Wagner*

*II: Nietzsche *_Contra_* Wagner*

*III: Selected Aphorisms*

Translated By

Anthony M. Ludovici

Third Edition

T. N. Foulis

13 & 15 Frederick Street

Edinburgh and London

1911

CONTENTS

Translator's Preface.
Preface To The Third Edition
The Case Of Wagner: A Musician's Problem
Nietzsche _contra_ Wagner
Selected Aphorisms from Nietzsche's Retrospect of his Years of Friendship
with Wagner.
Footnotes

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

Nietzsche wrote the rough draft of "The Case of Wagner" in Turin, during
the month of May 1888; he completed it in Sils Maria towards the end of
June of the same year, and it was published in the following autumn.
"Nietzsche _contra_ Wagner" was written about the middle of December 1888;
but, although it was printed and corrected before the New Year, it was not
published until long afterwards owing to Nietzsche's complete breakdown in
the first days of 1889.

In reading these two essays we are apt to be deceived, by their virulent
and forcible tone, into believing that the whole matter is a mere cover
for hidden fire,--a mere blind of aesthetic discussion concealing a deep and
implacable personal feud which demands and will have vengeance. In spite
of all that has been said to the contrary, many people still hold this
view of the two little works before us; and, as the actual facts are not
acces