Eliot spoke (https://archive.org/details/dante0000tsel) of the Italian as a universal European language in its ability to speak plainly.
Does anybody have English translators to recommend for Nietzsche? I have only read Thomas Commons' Zarathustra translation, being the only book from Nietzsche I've read more than a few paragraphs or one chapter, but read it entirely.
Evola and I have Mars frot Mars. ; ) 15th degree Aries, the both of us. Authors of strong Mars, Mercury, and Jupiter often make it into my rounds.
Kaufman is decent, despite being a noisemaker. I do not trust anything since.
I like the newer Parkes translation of Zarathustra, the only copy I own:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/thus-spoke-zarathustra-9780199537099?cc=us&lang=en&
And this was enjoyable albeit probably quite libertine, but that's what he was going for I think and anyway I don't speak German. A good book for the less invested reader of Nietzsche regardless:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13827305-hammer-of-the-gods
If I could only have one Artaud book, it would be this one. Not even The Theatre and Its Double...
https://citylights.com/city-lights-published/artaud-anth-ed-jack-hirschman/
Speaking of demented Frenchmen, if you can get your hands on a copy of The Dead Man by George Bataille, it's kind of rare but worth it.
Speaking of George Bataille, where better than to put this, The Solar Anus by Bataille:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/georges-bataille-the-solar-anus
Speaking of weird screeds, a certain horror writer called Ligotti turned me on to Zapffe's The Last Messiah:
https://ia601008.us.archive.org/2/items/the-last-messiah-read/The%20Last%20Messiah%20-%20screen%20v2.pdf