Nietzsche's Zarathustra

1884

Friedrich Nietzsche, living in rented rooms in Sils-Maria and increasingly alone, finished the third part of Thus Spoke Zarathustra - his strange, aphoristic hymn to the superman, eternal recurrence, and the death of God. It sold almost no copies. Four years later he would collapse in a Turin street, embracing a horse. The twentieth century had found an unwilling prophet.