- Fiction, German fiction, Translations into English, Epistolary fiction
"A Greek hermit recounts the pivotal phases of his life, from his discovery of the vanished glory of antiquity, through his encounter with his beloved Diotima, who embodies his goal of merging with "the All of nature," to his participation in a Greek uprising against Ottoman Turkish tyranny."--book jacket.
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Prestige, earnest, contemplative and grave.
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Friedrich Hölderlin
- First published
- 1921
- Pages
- 173
- Publisher
- Marées-Verlag, New English Library, Philipp Reclam jun. Verlag GmbH
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- German, Arabic, cze, English
- ISBN
- 9783920947648
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**Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin** (German pronunciation: [ˈjoːhan ˈkʁɪsti.aːn ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈhœldɐliːn]; 20 March 1770 – 7 June 1843) was a major German lyric poet, commonly associated with the artistic movement known as Romanticism.
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