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

Lesley Chamberlain is a British writer and critic who has written extensively on German and Russian literature, food and travel. Her published books include The Philosophy Steamer: Lenin and the Exile of the Intelligentsia, The Secret Artist: A Close Reading of Sigmund Freud and Motherland: a Philosophical History of Russia. Rilke: The Last Inward Man is also available from Pushkin Press.