Nietzsche's influence on Surrealism?
amor...@geocities.com
I have heard it said that Nietzsche was a major
influence on the French Surrealists, for example:
Georges Bataille and Rene Daumal, two great writers.
Anyone know of any references that discuss this?
I would like to read more about Rene Daumal but cant find much
specifically about him.
His 'Mount Analogue' is a real masterpiece, I think.
I wonder how much, if at all, he was influenced by Nietzsche.
Someone told me once that Bataille once even tried to start a church
or something based on Nietzsche! Anyone know if this is true?
thanks
(p.s. is this a new newsgroup? I dont remember seeing it ever before.
there was a nietzsche mailing list going for a while sponsored by
some FN academic society, but it seemed pretty dead.)
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Capt. Meat
amor...@geocities.com wrote:
>I have heard it said that Nietzsche was a major
>influence on the French Surrealists, for example:
>Georges Bataille and Rene Daumal, two great writers.
>
>Anyone know of any references that discuss this?
Not that I'm aware of...Although because of Nietzsche's
utilization of the subconscious and those underlying shadows
of the psyche he was one of the first writers to explore,
I can certainly see a thread of influence even
if there wasn't one...
>I would like to read more about Rene Daumal but cant find much
>specifically about him.
>
>His 'Mount Analogue' is a real masterpiece, I think.
>I wonder how much, if at all, he was influenced by Nietzsche.
Zarathustra or Sermon on the Mount?
Maybe both.
>Someone told me once that Bataille once even tried to start a church
>or something based on Nietzsche! Anyone know if this is true?
I'm not sure of its validity, but the very thought of a structure
erected upon the backbone of Nietzsche's works is more than peculiar.
It almost makes sense.
Lest we forget, beneath his secular swagger
Nietzsche was a moralist of New Testament proportions...
And just as Jesus was wrongly accused of trying
to overthrow (and/or disrupt) his given religion,
so too was Nietzsche erroneously portrayed
(even by himself) as an amoralist, one far above
the all-too-human reliance on the imitation
of deities in order to bring sense to a seemingly
witless world...
Is it possible for an amoralist to condemn anything?
If nothing is inherently right or wrong?
>(p.s. is this a new newsgroup? I dont remember seeing it ever before.
<nod>
BTW, this particular quote (from yer page) is a fav:
"The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm
passage is to be made across many a night."
Capt. Breakfast
Flabby Toad
amor...@geocities.com wrote:
> I have heard it said that Nietzsche was a major
> influence on the French Surrealists
t's OBVIOUS ... The FURS never reached ISTANBUL ... You were an EXTRA in
the REMAKE of "TOPKAPI" ... Gohome to your WIFE ... She's making FRENCH
TOAST!