Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (also translated as Thus Spake Zarathustra; German: Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen) is a novel by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885. The book is one of the crucial texts of the New Time. 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. A new translation with parallel text in Russian and German. Pictures by L. Heidis are not simple illustrations but rather a continuation of the text.