The Wagner Case Followed by Nietzsche Against Wagner

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I’ll lighten the mood a bit. It’s not just a malicious joke to praise Bizet at Wagner’s expense in this text. I’m inserting something serious into the humor. My break with Wagner was a catastrophic event for me, and to be able to love something afterward is a victory. Perhaps no one has ever been more dangerously entangled in Wagnerism than I, no one has had to defend themselves against it so fiercely, and no one has ever been more delighted to be rid of it. It’s a long story! —Can we put it into words?—I don’t know what I’d call it if I were a moralist! Perhaps a victory over oneself—. But a philosopher doesn’t like moralists… nor does he like flowery language…