Hyperion (Hölderlin novel)
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| Genre | Epistolary novel |
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Publication date | 1797 (volume 1), 1799 (volume 2) |
Published in English | 1965 |
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| Pages | 169 |
Hyperion is an
Origin
Hölderlin began working on Hyperion in 1792, as a 22-year-old student at the Tübinger Stift. He further developed it while serving as a Hofmeister on the estate of Charlotte von Kalb, and put finishing touches to the novel while receiving lectures from Johann Gottlieb Fichte at the University of Jena.[1]
Plot
Hyperion is set in
Legacy
The work contains Hyperions Schicksalslied ("Hyperion's Song of Fate"), an interpolated poem on which Johannes Brahms composed the Schicksalslied, Op. 54 between 1869 and 1871.
In
Between 1960-1969 the Italian composer and conductor Bruno Maderna composed the opera Hyperion after Hölderlin's novel.
The Italian composer Luigi Nono included passages from Hyperion in his work Fragmente-Stille, an Diotima for string quartet as part of the score to be "sung" silently by the performers while playing the piece.
In 1983, the German sculptor Angela Laich created a sculpture named Hyperion, after the main character of the Hölderlin novel.
Hyperion is included in the 2006 literary reference book 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.
English translations of Hyperion
- Hyperion or The Hermit in Greece translated by Willard R. Trask (Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1965)
- Hyperion translated by Ross Benjamin (ISBN 978-0-9793330-2-6
- Hyperion or the Hermit in Greece translated by India Russell (ISBN 978-1-9112803-2-3
- Hyperion or the Hermit in Greece translated by Howard Gaskill (ISBN 978-1-7837465-5-2
References
- ^ Michaelis, Rolf (27 January 1980). "Hölderlin: Hyperion". Die Zeit (in German).
- ISBN 978-0979333026.
- ^ Hölderlin, Friedrich (1965). Hyperion. Translated by Trask, Willard R. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. p. 106.
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