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 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 parable on the "
death of God", and the "prophecy" of the
Übermensch, which were first introduced in
The Gay Science.