If Nietzsche confronts individuality with collectivity, the presence with the tragedy molten in the past, he does so through a rupture that occurs in the immediacy of his own existence, in an event that reveals the mantle that sustains the activity of language. Such mantle he raises thus to glimpse the apollonian and dionysian powers, to question the dream and intoxication, the graphisms crystallized of history and the converged sonority of thought. The line that crosses such an event bifurcates the times of history and composes them from its subjective prism. At first, the homeric question is guarded by Nietzsche as an angular stone towards the classic: fragmenting and refracting the folk poetry in a projection that becomes active in the present and that confabulates the reason of a theatrical retrojection that reacts to the voices attracted by the past. While the homeric question silences the tragedy beyond the impassable axis of the classic, although it constitutes a scream that ignites the historical presence of language, it also conspires like a diamond-light that petrifies him immediately: on the one hand, making Homer a wealth of significations and collective narratives which meaning and value sediment the aesthetic formations held in history; on the other hand, setting up his unexpected individuality in an outlook that goes through the present language to the tragedy itself. Continue reading →