The Birth of Tragedy in 1872

He published that book the birth of tragedy in 18 72. But although the wagners did their best to defend him, it got a terrible reception. He was very bitter over this experience and disenchanted with the whole field of philology. And so he's just sort of in this place now. After his rapid initial rise into the company of the great at 24, he just sort of settles in as a rather conventional professor of philology,. publishing a handful of essays and other pieces that nobody really considers among his important work - but they were all written for students. His rivalry with wagner would become one of the central obsessions of nici's life, all the way