BIRTH OF TRAGEDY

Dedicated to Richard Wagner, this book is rich in Nietzsche's enthusiasms for Gr
eek literature and especially tragedy, for Schopenhauer and Wagner's Tristan Und
Isolde. Its central vision is the idea that only as an aesthetic phenomenon are
existence and the world justified. Making his distinction between the Apollonia
n and the Dionysian spirit, Nietzsche presses the reader to consider why it is t
hat we derive pleasure from tragic art, and what is the relationship between our
experience of suffering in life and in art.