Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody (Oxford World's Classics)

The book chronicles the fictitious travels and speeches of Zarathustra. Zarathustra's namesake was the founder of Zoroastrianism, usually known in English as Zoroaster . Nietzsche is clearly portraying a "new" or "different" Zarathustra, one who turns traditional morality on its head. He goes on to characterize "what the name of Zarathustra means in my mouth, the mouth of the first immoralist:"

Thus Spake Zarathustra, Nietzsche's most popular work, is fundamentally different from his other...