Sometime before we start in August I'll try to report on the Adrian Del Caro translation, to which I have access, and maybe on the Martin Clancy and/or Graham Parkes translations, depending on what I can find. This is not unreasonable, given that Nietzsche was a classical philologist himself, but I can't tell if that lines up well with the impression left by the German original. (For example, if memory serves, Kaufmann had 'over-full' versus Hollingdale's 'super-abundant.') So far as I recall, the overall impression, when compared to Kaufmann, was of someone with a good classical education not afraid to show off a large vocabulary. My main impression of the literary difference is that Hollingdale used more Latin-based vocabulary than Kaufmann. Many will prefer it, if only for its greater fidelity to Nietzsche's paragraph divisions and punctuation, but it also reads well. This was the first work of Nietzsche which I read, way back in the Johnson administration, although I quickly followed it with Kaufmann's version in the 'Portable' collection. There have been some revised editions, mostly new introductions. Hollingdale (Penguin Classics, 1961), with helpful endnotes. (It is also supposed to have somehow left out a whole sentence, but I've never seen specifics on this.) Used copies of either should be very reasonably priced, if you don't want a new copy. Some think that this distorted Nietzsche's actual intentions. Kaufmann is readable, and philosophically astute (he had written a major work on Nietzsche, which is still outstanding), but in his attempt to clarify Nietzsche he imposed new paragraphing, and used a more modern (and English) style of punctuation. Walter Kaufmann's very readable translation has been available for a long time, initially only in the 'Viking Portable Nietzsche' of 1954 (now, after a change of ownership, the ' Portable Nietzsche,' and also independently, since 1966. Tille reduced Nietzsche's wide variety of styles in the book to pseudo-King-James-Version English, and Commons let that stand. They simply don't have the combined grasp of English and German to do the job adequately, and had a limited understanding of Nietzsche to begin with. Of the older translations, Martin advises ignoring Tille and Tille/Commons, and I agree there, too - although these are long out of copyright, and can be found on-line free, or very cheap.

I've read some of Caro's and tend to agree: I can't comment on Parkes' (or Martin's, for that matter). Martin - the reviewer - suggests the Del Caro translation, from Cambridge University Press, is aimed more at students and scholars, while the Oxford World's Classics translation by Parkes is more for undergraduate classes and the general reader. notes that there are now seven English versions. A fairly recent (2006) review of two new translations of 'Also sprach Zarthustra' at.

Thus spoke zarathustra kaufmann