Title page
Original German
Diefröhliche Wissenschaft.
(„la gaya scienza“)
VonFRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE.
Ich wohne in meinem eignen Haus,Hab Niemandem nie nichts nachgemachtUnd — lachte noch jeden Meister aus,Der nicht sich selber ausgelacht.
Ueber meiner Hausthür.
Neue Ausgabemit einem Anhange:Lieder des Prinzen Vogelfrei.
LEIPZIG.Verlag von E. W. Fritzsch.1887.
Musean translation
Mouseia’s complete machine-assisted Musean translation of the expanded second edition (E. W. Fritzsch, Leipzig, 1887): the preface, the verse prologue “Jest, Cunning and Revenge”, all five books (aphorisms 1–383), and the appendix “Songs of Prince Free-as-a-Bird”. Made directly from the German, read from the printed pages; verse stays verse, and Nietzsche’s own emphases, dashes and numbered divisions are kept.
TheGay Science.
(“la gaya scienza”)
ByFRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE.
I live in my own house, my own,and never mimicked any man;I laughed at every master whohad never laughed at himself.
Over my front door.
New editionwith an appendix:Songs of Prince Free-as-a-Bird.
LEIPZIG.Published by E. W. Fritzsch.1887.
Plain English translation
Mouseia’s complete Plain English edition, made directly from the same 1887 German text, division by division and aphorism by aphorism. Same divisions and numbering; it explains what Nietzsche’s compressed German leaves implicit instead of imitating its cadence.
TheGay Science.
(“la gaya scienza”)
ByFriedrich Nietzsche.
I live in my own house.I have never copied anyone in anything,And—I have laughed at every masterWho did not first laugh at himself.
Over My Front Door.
New Editionwith an Appendix:Songs of Prince Free-as-a-Bird.
Leipzig.Published by E. W. Fritzsch.1887.
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