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256 pages, Paperback
First published January 26, 2017
"For Wagner, it was simply the achievement of his life’s goal: he had translated the spirit of the Greek theatre into German form, rescuing German art and the art of the stage from the triviality and mediocrity which threatened to engulf both. It offered an antipode to life as it actually was: a world, he said, of ‘murder and robbery, which were organised and legalised by lying, swindling and hypocrisy’.(...) It offers no comfort, only the unearthly radiance that comes from acknowledgement of the unavoidable pain of existence."