{"title":"Hyperion, or the Hermit in Greece","authors":"Friedrich Hölderlin","doi":"10.11647/obp.0160.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0160.01","url":null,"abstract":"Friedrich Hölderlin’s only novel, Hyperion (1797–99), is a fi c� onal epistolary autobiography that juxtaposes narra� on with cri� cal refl ec� on. Returning to Greece a� er German exile, following his part in the abor� ve uprising against the occupying Turks (1770), and his failure as both a lover and a revolu� onary, Hyperion assumes a hermi� c existence, during which he writes his le� ers. Confron� ng and commen� ng on his own past, with all its joy and grief, the narrator undergoes a transforma� on that culminates in the realisa� on of his true voca� on.","PeriodicalId":128722,"journal":{"name":"Hyperion, or the Hermit in Greece","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121823815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Afterword","authors":"Howard Gaskill","doi":"10.11647/obp.0160.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0160.02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":128722,"journal":{"name":"Hyperion, or the Hermit in Greece","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126212769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}