[PW] Re: Superman, Dumas, and Nietzsche

[Daphne Drewello]

Reed Bowman wrote

> I am trying to find a quote I remember only dimly. I read or heard it in
> the last few years, but it could easily be older. A close paraphrase
> would be
>
> The Superman of the comic books is more a descendent of Dumas than of
> Nietzsche.

  There's something similar here.

http://tinyurl.com/mwjn7

Whatever he be, we can affirm that much of the supposed Nietzschean
'superhumanity' has as its origin and doctrinal model not Zarathustra at all
but the Count Of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas." (Antonio Gramsci,
Letturatura e Vita Nazionale III - "Letturatura poplare")


Daphne Drewello
Alfred Dickey Library
Jamestown, ND