Zarathustra’s Dionysian ModernismIn arguing that Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical explanation of the possibility of modernismthat is, of the possibility of radical cultural change through the creation of new valuesthe author shows that literary fiction can do the work of philosophy. Nietzsche takes up the problem of modernism by inventing Zarathustra, a self styled cultural innovator who aspires to subvert the culture of modernity (the repressive culture of the