The Invention of DionysusThis book argues that The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche's first book, does not mark a rupture with his prior philosophical undertakings but is, in fact, continuous with them and with his later writings as well. These continuities are displayed above all in the entanglement of his surface narratives, in the self consuming artifice of his writing, in the interplay of his voices, posturings, and ironiesin a word, in his staging of meaning rather than in