In 1888, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche moved to Turin. This would be the year in which he wrote three of his greatest works: Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, and Ecce Homo; it would also be his last year of writing. He suffered a debilitating nervous breakdown in the first days of the following year. In this probing, elegant biography of that pivotal year, Lesley Chamberlain undoes popular clichés and misconceptions about Nietzsche by offering a deeply complex approach to his character and work. Focusing as much on Nietzsche's daily habits, anxieties and insecurities as on the development of his philosophy, Nietzsche in Turin offers a uniquely lively portrait of the great thinker, and of the furiously productive days that preceded his decline.

"A major intellectual event... simply the best book I have read in a very long time on the greatest philosopher of the modern age" - Irish Times

"This brilliant book should be a great relief for anyone condemned to read the run of contemporary Nietzsche commentaries; and for anyone who isn't, it could be an introduction which is hard to imagine being surpassed in passion and lucidity" - The Times

"Lesley Chamberlain has a rare gift for animating philosophy through intensely human stories" - Sunday Telegraph

"'Lesley Chamberlain's evocative and sensitive book Nietzsche in Turin, reprinted in an elegant new edition by Pushkin Press, restores to Nietzsche some of his humanity... Her book keeps its sights carefully on Nietzsche the man at a point where for many other writers he is already lost, a tiny indiscernible figure against the huge backdrop of symbol and tragedy'" - The Times

"'Chamberlain, in this learned and sympathetic volume, insists that Nietzsche is the most misrepresented, misunderstood and even mistranslated of all the great minds of his age and, in this reader's opinion, she makes a persuasive, deeply humane argument, and very accessible argument'" - The Meath Chronicle

"'The dissonance between the bellicose Nietzsche of legend and the all-too-human Nietzsche the person is conveyed brilliantly in Chamberlain's wonderful portrait" - Spiked