The Portable Nietzsche

Summary: This is a great book is for people who know what they are getting into. I do not treat this as my only Nietzsche book. I substituted it with other works of Nietzsche. Pro: This book contains the Kaufmann translation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and that alone makes it deserving of five stars. Cons: 52% of this 704 page book is Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The typeset is ancient and most of the book's girth gets sacrificed to accomodate the huge font,spacing, and margins. It is great for old people, and people who seek a durable book with thick pages, but it utterly fails as a portable library. Note: Personally, I don't think Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a good entrypoint to Nietzsche's Will to Power. In the absense of Beyond Good and Evil, they should have at least included the full text of On the Geneology of Morals in this book. But I won't judge Kaufmann's decision. He is the most impartial Nietzsche translator to my knowledge. This book certainly doesn't have a replacement.

I can’t review Nietzsche. This is impossible. This is review of condition of the book. Condition is not so great. The book is easy to hold and really portable in that sense. Though 5 star is indispensable for Nietzsche.

1. Personally my favourite translation of Nietzsche’s work 2. Kaufmann’s sensitivity in handling the task of translation is a rare quality 3. The book is as much the delight of reading Nietzsche’s ideas as much as marvelling at Kaufmann’s artistry.

A lot of material in low price. It's really portable contains main works of the author.

absolute bomb of a book. nietzsche was a great prophet of death of god and a prognosticator of the psychological degeneration the world was going to witness. so this book is an important piece of work, it’s mind blowing that this book alone includes 4 major books of nietzsche’s and his letters and notes and aphorisms from his other books. must buy