Louis Cutrona, Jr.​

Did not Nietzsche write in The Atlas of Forgetfulness, summa vitae of his major works, a musing on the role of absence, loss, and dissolution – Nichtsverfassung, that which has come to naught – in 19th century Prussian literature, engendering in the superior person, the Übermensch, an urge to confront the depredations of lost time (in the Proustian sense), the last stage of the examined life, to assert and preserve, to surmount, to struggle; to maintain cohesion in the final moments of life, triumphing over death in a final moment of acceptance that flows unperturbed into the transcendence of eternal sleep? He did not.