Lucian Blaga, Nietzsche and Zamolxe
Lucian Blaga, Nietzsche and Zamolxe

Summary/Abstract: A discussion of the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche’s work on the Romanian poet and philosopher Lucian Blaga at the beginning of his career. The effects of Nietzsche’s thought and of German Expressionism were strong on Blaga’s early poetry and, especially, on his first play, about the Dacian prophet Zalmoxe. Although the affinities between Zalmoxe and Nietzsche’s Zarathustra are abundant, Blaga’s play is not an affirmation of Nietzsche’s philosophy. Rather, Blaga is engaged in creating his own myth of Zalmoxe in order both to explore the hidden life force of the Dacians and to reveal his own philosophy of life.

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