489 Schopenhauer (aka The Tunnel and The Hole)
The History of Literature
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Schopenhauer and Nietzsche
Schopenhauer's father was a man of business and expected his son to take over his business. Arthur grew up under the weight of these expectations. He'd become a man of industry to follow his father who was apparently very influential in his life into the business. So he wrote the model novel, the model play, the best travel book, the best autobiography,. The best collected letters and the best and most exhaustive body of poetry one could imagine in German.
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