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Mein Kampf

No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra

The Sea Wolf by Jack London.

the holy Quran

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Nietzsche's Ubermensch is really just any man of strong will and capability who sets his own rules and is more-or-less self-sufficient so there's lots of not-obvious examples; it doesn't have to be an invincible warrior-poet. You can have female ones too although they're going to be rarer.

Most modern books with a character like that tend to show his downfall; i.e. the story is "hubris punished". (Thomas Sutpen in Absalom, Absalom! is a prime example.) Nietzsche doesn't say that an Ubermensch will always succeed, but I guess a work feels more Nietzschean in spirit if he actually does.

Anyway:

The Odyssey (Homer)
Norse Edda (Unknown author)
Beowulf (Unknown author)
Kings & Chronicles (Old Testament)
Paradise Lost (Milton)
Tarzan of the Apes (Burroughs)
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Verne)
The Conan stories (Robert E. Howard)
The Solomon Kane stories (Ibid)
Blood Meridian (McCarthy)

In Paradise Lost it's Satan who is the Ubermensch, and in Blood Meridian it's obviously the Judge. No-one said you 're always gonna like 'em. In 20,000 Leagues under the sea it's Nemo, who is an equivocal figure, but he's a hero for me.

The Old Testament character is King David of course. Certainly an Ubermensch, although I think he was pretty loathsome.

Howard Roark in The Fountainhead and John Galt in Atlas Shrugged are explicitly created as Nietzschean Ubermensch, but Ayn Rand is not a good novelist.

Bronze Age mindset

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All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers, and the sheep did nor hear them.

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

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the immoralist

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Conan the Barbarian in some aspects?

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