{"id":93098,"date":"2015-12-30T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=93098"},"modified":"2015-12-21T12:41:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T17:41:42","slug":"turin-stroll-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/30\/turin-stroll-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Turin Stroll"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo: David Wen Riccardi-Zhu<\/p><\/div>\n

Reenacting the walk that led to Nietzsche\u2019s breakdown.<\/em><\/p>\n

On the morning of January 3, 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche is known to have left his Turin residence on Via Carlo Alberto with the intention of walking into the center of the city. He\u2019d gone barely two hundred meters when, coming onto the Piazza Carignano, he pulled up at the sight of a recalcitrant horse being flogged by its driver. Nietzsche approached and, throwing his arms around the beast\u2019s neck, whispered something in its ear that to this day remains a conundrum: \u201cMother, I am stupid.\u201d He immediately went back home, where he fell dumb and lost consciousness, not coming round until a few days before his death, a decade later, in 1900.<\/p>\n

In May 2012, I travelled to Turin with the intention of repeating, step by step, that walk of Nietzsche\u2019s, which\u2014between A and B below\u2014I had no difficulty finding on the map. Read More >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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