Mauro Comba
NITZSKY

Description

“Nitzsky. Nietzsche Ditirambo Folie a Torino” (Nitzsky. Nietzsche Dithyramb Folie in Torino) is a play that focuses on the madness of F. Nietzsche (1844–1900), which manifested itself and persisted until his death on January 3, 1889, when the German philosopher, who was staying in Piazza Carlo Alberto, surrendered to it in a fraternal embrace to a fallen horse, whipped by a merciless coachman in Piazza Carignano. This thematic core underpins the delirium of the simultaneously obsessed and unhinged mind of the thinker who, in Turin, had written, during 1888, “The Case of Wagner,” “Twilight of the Idols,” “The Antichrist,” “Ecce Homo,” and “Nietzsche Contra Wagner,” as well as a significant number of letters from his extensive correspondence. This text is, for its author, an attempt at a landing (or a shipwreck, no one knows how gently endured) after setting sail (it was 1987) from Weichelt’s studio in search of the sources for “Zarathustra.” This, and the subsequent conscious landings made during this not-so-brief voyage, are noted in the bibliographical notes and final acknowledgements.