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Hyperion, or the Hermit in Greece

Friedrich Hölderlin’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...

Keywords:: D (Literature and literary studies), Hyperion, FV (Historical fiction), FQ (Myth and legend told as fiction), Friedrich Hölderlin, FC (Classic fiction (pre c. 1945)), LIT004170 (Literary criticism: German), fictional epistolary autobiography, novel, European Romanticism, FIC032000 (FICTION / War & Military), FOR009000 (FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / German)

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Humanities / European Studies

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Date Added to MERLOT:: November 26, 2019
Date Modified in MERLOT:: August 1, 2020
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