Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

My sister and I Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; Translated by Oscar Levy - New York Boar's Head Books 1951 - 254 p.

The authorship of this work and responsibility for the translation and editorship by Levy are under dispute. Cf. Saturday review of literature, Apr. 5 and May 24, 1952; Aufbau, May 30, 1952, etc.

My Sister and I is an apocryphal work attributed to German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Following Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufmann, most consider the work to be a literary forgery, although a small minority argues for the book's authenticity. It was supposedly written in 1889 or early 1890 during Nietzsche's stay in a mental asylum in the Thuringian city of Jena. If legitimate, My Sister and I would be Nietzsche's second autobiographical and final overall work, chronologically following his Wahnbriefe (Madness Letters), written during his extended time of mental collapse.

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Förster-Nietzsche, Elisabeth 1846-1935
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm 1844-1900


Philosophy --Germany

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