The Impossibility of Flight

Abstract

As a key work from the early 20th century avant-garde, Wyndham Lewis’s play Enemy of the Stars can be seen as a modernist reaction to the nihilism inherent in modernity. One of the most comprehensive expressions of nihilism may be found in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche. This study will bring the two authors together by investigating what nihilism means and a possible way out of this nihilism as presented in various elements in Nietzsche’s Zarathustra,