"With Nietzsche’s life we are again left to ponder the tribute genius must pay to insanity."

I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche review: A gripping read

Prideaux’s Nietzsche is one who is invested with all the hopes and aspirations of a family that has lost a father at a young age, and who is perceived, within that intimate circle, as something approaching a god. He more than fulfilled that destiny, but ultimately not in the way either his mother, a devout Christian, nor his sister would have wished. And for it he paid the highest price. With Nietzsche’s life we are again left to ponder the tribute genius must pay to insanity.