"THUS SPOKE TZARATHOUSTRA," IN: GERMAN METAMORPHOSES AND AVANT-GARDES IN THE 20TH CENTURY. HOMAGE TO GEORGES BLOESS, EDITED BY FRANÇOISE PY, L'HARMATTAN, 2015, PP. 159-175.
At the origin of this article, there is the communication I proposed to Bruno Pompili, organizer of a colloquium at the University of Bari (Italy) on "Nietzsche and the avant-gardes" on November 18 and 19, 1999. The very bad pun of the title had been inspired by an echo of Max Jacob, who must have had his reasons for thus bringing together Tzara and Nietzsche. I must admit that, not speaking Italian, I was not comfortable in front of a group of philosophers expressing themselves in this language and little open to poetry. (See: Bruno Pompili, Strabismi 2. Leggere e scrivere, by Lucrezia Mazzei)
The text therefore remained in typescript form, until the day when I was invited to the homage session for our Germanist colleague and art historian, Georges Bloess, for his retirement. I appreciated his regular collaboration with the Mélusine journal as well as with our collective meetings. In the L'Harmattan editions bookstore that was hosting us, I improvised the portrait below and offered my work on Tristan Tzara as a reader of Nietzsche, unpublished for the French-speaking public.
Download PDF – Portrait in relief of G.Bloess.
