Hyperion, or the Hermit in Greece

by Howard (translator) Gaskill

Friedrich H lderlin's only novel, Hyperion (1797-99), is a fictional epistolary autobiography that juxtaposes narration with critical reflection. Returning to Greece after German exile, following his part in the abortive uprising against the occupying Turks (1770), and his failure as both a lover and a revolutionary, Hyperion assumes a hermitic existence, during which he writes his letters. Confronting and commenting on his own past, with all its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 101329257X
• ISBN13: 9781013292576
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 11.0"