Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical novel by Friedrich Nietzsche that presents his ideas on the Übermensch, the death of God, and the revaluation of values through the speeches of the prophet Zarathustra.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literary work
philosophical novel
adaptedAs radio plays
theatrical productions
author Friedrich Nietzsche
countryOfOrigin Germany
firstPublicationYear 1883
genre existential literature
modernist literature
philosophical fiction
hasCharacter the higher men
the last man
tightrope walker
influenced 20th-century philosophy
existentialism
modernist literature
post-structuralism
psychoanalysis
inspired Richard Strauss tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra
languageStyle biblical parody
poetic prose
literaryForm parable
sermon-like speeches
mainCharacter Zoroaster
surface form: Zarathustra
narrativeForm prose
notableConcept eternal recurrence
last man
will to power
Übermensch
originalLanguage German
originalTitle Thus Spoke Zarathustra self-linksurface differs
surface form: Also sprach Zarathustra
philosophicalFocus creation of new values
critique of traditional morality
philosophicalSchool Friedrich Nietzsche
surface form: Nietzschean philosophy
publicationPeriodEnd 1885
publicationPeriodStart 1883
publisher Ernst Schmeitzner NERFINISHED
setting mountains
various towns and landscapes
structure four parts
theme critique of Christianity
death of God
eternal recurrence
nihilism
revaluation of values
self-overcoming
will to power
Übermensch

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Friedrich Nietzsche notableWork Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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