Nietzsche's prophecy of Gravity's Rainbow
Roger E. Rustad, Jr.
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Fri Nov 12 10:20:23 CST 2004
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lorentzen-nicklaus wrote:
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> Just kidding. But then again not quite. Some days ago I read,
> here in our new house, in Nietzsche's late fragments (known to
> some of you in corrupted editions under the title of "Will to Power") the following aphorism which was written somewhen
> between November 1887 and March 1888:
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> "Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts: verrückt und mathematisch zugleich, analytisch-phantastisch: die Dinge wichtiger und im Vordergrund, nicht mehr die Wesen; die Liebe abgeschafft (schon bei Balzac tritt das Geld in den Vordergrund): mehr von der Geschichte im Kopfe erzählend als von der im Herzen."
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> (Kritische Studienausgabe, ed. by Colli/Montinari,
> Band 13, p. 120)
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> In my measurable kindness I translate this for you:
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> Literature of the 20th century: crazy and mathematical at the
> same time, analytical-phantastic: the things more important and
> in the foreground, not anymore the beings; love abolished
> (already in Balzac the money steps into the foreground): telling more about the history in the head than about that in the heart.
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> Another book that comes into mind here is Musil's "Mann ohne Eigenschaften" --
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