The Recalcitrant Art: Diotima's Letters to Holderlin and Related Missives Edited and Translated by Douglas F. Kenney and Sabine Menner-Betts

by Susette Borkenstein Gontard and David Farrell Krell

In this entirely unique approach to the life of Friedrich H lderlin, The Recalcitrant Art combines the techniques of fiction and nonfiction as it examines the love between the poet and Susette Gontard ("Diotima").

On the left-hand or verso pages of the book appear Susette Gontard's letters, presented here in English translation for the first time, with an introduction and afterword by Douglas F. Kenney. On the right-hand or recto pages appear...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791446018
• ISBN13: 9780791446010
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"