A new translation of Nietzsche?s seminal work by a prize-winning translator of W. G. Sebald, Goethe, Rilke, Herta Mu?ller, and Elfriede Jelinek.In Thus Spake Zarathustra, Nietzsche?s infamous protagonist sets off on a grand and noble quest to find meaning in a secular world and to live joyfully alongside the knowledge of death. In this new translation by Michael Hulse?the first in English by a poet?Zarathustra is revealed in all his bold and ironic splendor as a man who prizes self-worth above all else as a moral code to live by. Radical, uncategorizable, contradictory, and often humorous, Thus Spake Zarathustra is a grand celebration of human existence by one of the most influential thinkers of the past two centuries.