Lessing#
Summary#
Lessing stands as an exception among German writers due to his histrionic nature and cosmopolitan sensibilities. As a translator of Bayle who took refuge in the works of Diderot and Voltaire, he understood and was versed in many things. Nietzsche praises Lessing for loving free-spiritism in tempo and flight out of Germany, escaping the ponderous, viscous, and pompously clumsy style that characterizes German prose.