Nietzsche... understood that one of the qualities of a classic is that it elicits from the reader a double sense of witnessed truth: that of poetic artifice and that of experienced reality, or, in Nietzschean terms, that of Apollonian illusion and that of Dionysian struggle.
Alberto Manguel (commenting on Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy)
*Note on Nietzsche:
Nietzsche studied in both Bonn and Leipzig and was elected to the Chair of Classical Philosophy at the University of Basel at age twenty-five. He wrote The Birth of Tragedy at age twenty-eight.
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About Me
- Sailor Hugo
- A Master in Comparative Literature (New York University), and a Bachelor Summa Cum Laude (4.0 GPA) Phi Beta Kappa & Interdisciplinary Honors in English and American Literature (& Creative Writing), plus a minor in Classical and Political Philosophy (City University of New York). At New York University, he has taught for the Comparative Literature and the Spanish and Portuguese Departments. In 2013 he published Belleza Terrible; in 2014, The Latin American Literature of the Neoliberal Crisis: The Emergence of a Postmodern Posthegemonic Heterotopy? In 2015, he published Occupy La Rive Gauche: R-evolution; Paris, May 1968. His most recent work is titled Del lado de allá. He writes bi-monthly columns in some Spanish-language newspapers. Also, a painter, he has described his style as "concrete expressionism." In January of 1988 he came to live in Manhattan (the Irish writer Emer Martin called his Central Park West apartment “the inside of Hugo's head"), after having resided in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. In 2004 lived in Paris, where he did research at the Sorbonne and at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.