Breakthrough and Through

The life of Nietzsche received a fictionalized treatment in Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus.  (Mann also addressed the problem of Nietzsche in his Last Essays.)  One comparison with Mann is Muhammad Iqbal, who spoke directly of Nietzsche in his long poem Javid-Nama. "I said to Rumi, 'Who is this madman?'. He answered, 'This is the German genius [Nietzsche] ... seeking the station of Omnipotence ... he broke from God, and was snapped too from himself' ".