Allusions the first part of Thus spoke Zaratustra in Nietzsche’s letters: creation as and educational perspective

Abstract

During the years 1881 and 1885, Nietzsche had his first intuitions, wrote and published the work Thus spoke Zarathustra. In the present text, we will focus on the circumstances that bordered this event based on the correspondences that the philosopher wrote to several people in the period. Only the initial moments in which the Zarathustra is portrayed will be addressed, when the German thinker highlights the relationship that is always present in the missives, between thought and nature; it establishes proximity between the act of writing, an activity that he understood as a task, with thought and life. Nietzsche also assessed his personal health problems and, at the same time, that of collective weakness, which required “help to himself”, to face both personal illnesses and those imposed by gregarious life. Art, in its diverse manifestations, but, above all, music figured as educational and curative means, through which he can seek impulse to create, to be a soldier, capable of giving life to a powerful work, such as the Zarathustra. A serious and cheerful book, created within a particular and social environment in which it was necessary to transform “suffering into gold”.