oeuvre, n.All

An Oeuvre (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠at the moment of death, but a collection of failures — yet if they share one resonance, the creator has repeated the image of his own condition.

An Oeuvre (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not given but made: does Nietzsche's name cover Zarathustra, the postcards signed 'Dionysos', and the notebooks with their jumble of laundry bills and sketches for aphorisms in the same way?

An Oeuvre (n.) means ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠something different for the author of the Tractatus and the author of The Theatre and its Double: it is neither an immediate, nor a certain, nor a homogeneous unity.