Thus Spake Zarathustra Nietzsche Friedrich (1997)

Translated by Thomas Common, with an introduction by Nicholas Davey, this astonishing series of aphorisms places the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche in the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster. It presents the concepts at the heart of Nietzsche’s thought, including the declaration that God is dead, his criticism of Christianity as decadent and his vision of the bermensch, whose will to power creates a new heroic mentality. These intensely felt ideas appear in prose poetry of indefinable beauty. Although the book was misused by the German National Socialist Party as a spurious justification of its creed, it profoundly influenced early twentieth-century writers including Shaw, Mann, Gide, Lawrence and Sartre.