Nietzsche regarded ' Thus Spoke Zarathustra' as his most important work & his story of the wandering Zarathustra has had enormous influence on subsequent culture Nietzsche uses a mixture of homilies parables epigrams & dreams to introduce some of his most striking doctrines including the Overman nihilism & the eternal return of the same This edition offers a new translation by Adrian Del Caro which restores the original versification of Nietzsche's text & captures its poetic brilliance Robert Pippin's introduction discusses many of the most important interpretative issues raised by the work including who is Zarathustra & what kind of 'hero' is he & what is the philosophical significance of the work's literary form? The volume will appeal to all readers interested in one of the most original & inventive works of modern philosophy