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mahermaliIt seems a weird structure

Yes, it does. But it may be a literary style of a by-gone time. What is the publication date?

CJ

CalifJim But it may be a literary style of a by-gone time.

It is![Y] Using do/does/did in questions was introduced in Shakespeare's days, about 400-odd years ago. As it is a fairly recent development in the English language, forming questions and negations without the auxiliary doesn't always sound totally incorrect to the native ear, especially in poet

You are right the publication date is 1885

I was surprised to see this kind of structure.

Thanks

The book is about philosphy and I think most people have heard about it:

"Thus Spoke Zarathustra"

By Nietzche

I'm trying to read this book in English, although there are translations in my native language.

I'll give it a try.

Thanks for your reply

mahermali"Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
By Nietzche

This book is not written in English! It's in a rather strange style even in the original German, so the English translation is going to be in very odd English indeed. You won't learn any English worth using in today's world by reading that book! I'm not saying "Don't read it", because you may be interested i

Thanks CJ

Actually I've just read 15 pages (not much), you are right about the book usefulness regarding the English learning process, I'm not depedning on this book to get a better English, but I like to read it because I'm interested in the philosophy, and this book is considered one of the most important books in this domain (as someone told me), so I perefer to read it in English inst