If you’d told me a year ago that I was going to write a book about Nietzsche and Wagner, I’d have said you were mad. I stumbled ass-backwards into the whole concept about nine months ago when I realised a correspondence between Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamzov and Wagner’s final opera, Parsifal. Thinking that I’d finally cracked the code of Parsifal (famously Wagner’s most difficult story), I remembered that Nietzsche had hated the opera and went back to see what he wrote ...
