The Essay: On Holiday with Nietzsche

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Writer Ken Hollings reflects on his literary encounters with Friedrich Nietzsche.

Writer Ken Hollings is in northern Italy, contemplating late Nietzsche and the human condition, in sickness and in health.

“Nietzsche and I crossed paths in an unexpected place not so long ago… Without meaning to, the two of us found ourselves occupying the same place at different times but at similar points in our lives.”

In this fifth and final essay of the series the writer Ken Hollings is in northern Italy, contemplating late Nietzsche and the human condition, in sickness and in health.

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The writer Ken Hollings reflects on his literary encounters with Friedrich Nietzsche.

Writer Ken Hollings's personal reflections on his literary encounters with the German philosopher who influenced a generation of thinkers.

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