“... with all my affection, I am your old philosopher, your grumpy and immoralist bear.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
From the almost one-day wife Mathilde Trampedach to the platonic relationship with Louise Ott, from the love triangle with Lou Salome and Paul Rée to the passion for Cosima Wagner: the loves Nietzsche describes in his letters are both improbable and tragic, disjointed and legendary. The theorist of the will to power abandons himself to outbursts of tenderness that hint at the irreducible innocence of the man who caused Western thought to explode.
