Chronicle of Nietzsche 's Life 36710). New conflicts with his sister: "This cursed anti-Semitic business ...
is the cause of a radical break" (April 2). Part 3 of Zarathustra is pub-
lished in April April to May in Venice. Concerning his visit to Jacob
Burckhardt in Basel: "The height of my enjoyment was Burckhardt's
embarrassment in having to tell me something about Zarathustra: he
could only manage to say that I might try writing a drama sometime"
(July 25).July to September in Sils-Maria. Works on part 4 of Zarathustra: "my
doctrine that the wodd of good and evil is only an apparent and per-
spectivist wodd is such an innovation that sometimes I lose my ability to
hear or see" (July 25). Reconciliation with his mother and sister in
Zurich (late September). Visits Gottfried Keller, who says about N.: "I
think that fellow is crazy." N.'s publisher Schmeitzner wants to sell the
publishing rights to N.'s works for 20,000 marks, but fails to find a buyer.
N. spends the winter in Nice.
1885
N. completes part 4 of Zarathustra, which is printed as a private edition
for friends and acquaintances. N.'s sister marries Bernhard Förster
(May). May and June in Venice. N. is ill. "I can stand life in the morning,
but by the afternoon and evening I can hardly endure it, and it even
seems to me that I have achieved enougjb, under difficult circumstances,
to be able to leave with honor" (May). Summer in Sils-Maria. The pub-
lisher Schmeitzner is on the verge of bankruptcy. N. looks for a new
publisher, hoping to get out of Schmeitzner's "anti-Semitic dump."
Winter in Nice.1886
N.'s sister and Förster move to Paraguay to found a German colony. N.
writes Beyond Good and EviL He still has no publisher for it "because it is
a terrible book that flowed from my soul this time" (April 21). In June,
he sees Rohde for the first time in years. Rohde writes to Overbeck: "An