Abstract
This article proposes to analyse some aspects of Thus spoke Zarathustra, tracking the possible sources that echoes in the book. However, the examples cited herein must not give the impression that the text is comprehensible or dechipherable just through references to sources or by means of an extratext. In fact, the text is always independent, autonomous and comprehensible to each attentive and rigorous reader. Nevertheless, what Montinari defined as “the difficult art of reading Nietzsche”, that’s it, the Reading in the midst of the tangle of internal connexions and literary references (therefore, the reading by means of a comment), does not provide just « a glance at the writer´s office »: the wealth of literary, philosophical or musical allusions from a text finds its meaning also in the echo that it evokes in the reader, as far as warning him about the author´s secret intentions, intercepting connections between the distant spheres of the author and of the reader, and effectively allows him to be « touched » by the text.
Keywords
Zarathustra; allusion; sources; Dithyrambes; Dionysos