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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Friedrich Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra, published in four parts between 1883 and 1885. A philosophical novel following the prophet Zarathustra, it is the primary literary vehicle for Nietzsche's doctrines of the Ubermensch, the will to power and the eternal recurrence.
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Publication YearFirst part published in 1883; the full four-part work was completed by 1885, with the fourth part initially printed only privately. Original Language Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra is unified by following the career of a central character, but the unity is loose and picaresque-like, a sequence of episodes which arrives at a somewhat equivocal (or at a minimum, at a controversial) conclusion that imposes only weak narrative unity on the whole.
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