Bokdetaljer
Format
Pocketbok
Sidor
173
Språk
Engelska
Publicerad
Sep 1, 1965
Förlag
The New American Library
Beskrivning
7 x 4.2 x .43 in
Here, presented in its first English translation, is Friedrich Hölderlin's great novel, Hyperion. Cast in the form of letters from its eighteenth-century protagonist to a German friend, this book charts the course of a desperate search for fulfillment in action, in love, and in final contemplation; its story is one of human disillusion and human rebirth. In it the reader will encounter one of the most vivid of all literary landscapes--a landscape the author never saw but to which he dedicated all the resources of his art--the landscape of Greece, bathed in blazing sunlight, infused with remembered glory. Written in a prose whose remarkable rhythmic power deeply influenced Nietzsche, Hyperion represents a triumph of the poetic imagination and a projection of a vision of the human condition that has caused the figure of Hölderlin to loom ever larger in the contemporary literary consciousness. In the words of Alexander Gode-von Aesch: "If ever it seems a little 'absurd' that existentialism...has on its roster no name of a poet not hedged by excuses and qualifications, turn to Hölderlin."
Here, presented in its first English translation, is Friedrich Hölderlin's great novel, Hyperion. Cast in the form of letters from its eighteenth-century protagonist to a German friend, this book charts the course of a desperate search for fulfillment in action, in love, and in final contemplation; its story is one of human disillusion and human rebirth. In it the reader will encounter one of the most vivid of all literary landscapes--a landscape the author never saw but to which he dedicated all the resources of his art--the landscape of Greece, bathed in blazing sunlight, infused with remembered glory. Written in a prose whose remarkable rhythmic power deeply influenced Nietzsche, Hyperion represents a triumph of the poetic imagination and a projection of a vision of the human condition that has caused the figure of Hölderlin to loom ever larger in the contemporary literary consciousness. In the words of Alexander Gode-von Aesch: "If ever it seems a little 'absurd' that existentialism...has on its roster no name of a poet not hedged by excuses and qualifications, turn to Hölderlin."
Genrer
Natur