The Initiation of Nietzsche

Is it possible to live your life as if it were a work of art? Can we go one step further and become the authors of our own lives rather than side characters in another's story? These were the dangerous ideas that Richard Wagner used to "corrupt" a bright young philology student named Friedrich Nietzsche. Just as Socrates corrupted Plato into becoming the founder of Western philosophy, so would Wagner corrupt Nietzsche into becoming one of the philosophical giants of the modern age. In the terms