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Brian Westland Thus Spake Zarathustra Brian Westland by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None also translated as Thus Spake Zarathustra is a philosophical novel by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche composed in four parts written between 1883 and 1885 and published between 1883 and 1891. Much of the work deals with ideas such as the eternal recurrence of the same the death of GodThus Spoke Zarathustra was conceived while Nietzsche was writing The Gay Science; he made a small note reading 6000 feet beyond man and time as evidence of this. More specifically this note related to the concept of the eternal recurrence which is by Nietzsches admission the central idea of Zarathustra; this idea occurred to him by a pyramidal block of stone on the shores of Lake Silvaplana in the Upper Engadine a high alpine region whose valley floor is at 6000 feet 1800 m. Nietzsche planned to write the book in three parts over several years. He wrote that the ideas for Zarathustra first came to him while walking on two roads surrounding Rapallo according to Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche in the introduction of Thomas Commons early translation of the book.Although Part Three was originally planned to be the end of the book and ends with a strong climax Nietzsche subsequently decided to write an additional three parts; ultimately however he composed only the fourth part which is viewed to constitute an intermezzo.Nietzsche commented in Ecce Homo that for the completion of each part: Ten days sufficed; in no case neither for the first nor for the third and last did I require more trans. Kaufmann. The first three parts were first published separately and were subsequently published in a single volume in 1887. The fourth part remained private after Nietzsche wrote it in 1885; a scant forty copies were all that were printed apart from seven others that were distributed to Nietzsches close friends. In March 1892 the four parts were finally reprinted as a single volume. Since then the version most commonly produced has included all four parts.show more