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Struck by Apollo: Hölderlin's Journeys to Bordeaux and Back and Beyond

Struck by Apollo: Hölderlin's Journeys to Bordeaux and Back and Beyond

Krell, David Farrell

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Series: Suny Series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Liter

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismTravel General

ISBN10: 143849503X
ISBN13: 9781438495033
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Apr 2 2024
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Retraces Hölderlin's journeys to Bordeaux and back in 1801-02, explaining why they are turning points in the great poet's life.

2024 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

In the winter of 1801-02, Friedrich Hölderlin traveled more than one thousand kilometers from his home near Stuttgart to Bordeaux, partly on foot, partly by post coach. It took him two months. Then, after four months serving as a tutor, he inexplicably decided to return home. Not long after he set out, his coach was held up by highwaymen, and, with no money, he had to walk the rest of the way. By the time he arrived, he was so disheveled and disoriented his friends did not recognize him. Though Hölderlin was just thirty-two years old, the trip marked the beginning of the end of his active life as one of Germany's greatest poets and thinkers.

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