David Pollard: 2 books

Pollard's work shows an explosive, protean diversity, a polyphonic way of showing how harmony enriches by dividing into different voices. Styles here bounce off each other as if fighting for possession. He displays an uncanny ability to let words collide so as to interrupt their sense, only then to renew their saying power somewhere beyond the limit of fixed speech.

During the final decade of Nietzsche's life, when he was mad, his sister created an archive in his name. She placed him upstairs as a living exhibit while she beavered away in the rooms beneath rewriting his work and establishing him as a great name in the new world of Nazi Germany. Her efforts gave...