Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a work of philosophical fiction written by German
philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche between 1883 and 1885 The protagonist is
nominally the historical Zarathustra, but, besides a handful of sentences, Nietzsche
is not particularly concerned with any resemblance. Much of the book purports to
be what Zarathustra said, and it repeats the refrain, "Thus spoke Zarathustra".
The style of Zarathustra has facilitated variegated and often incompatible ...