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Odas (Poesía Hiperión)

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Los poemas recogidos en este volumen de Odas , abarcan seis años de 1796 a 1802. Son años claves en su trayectoria, pues en ellos conoce y se enamora de su Diotima, ve publicado su Hiperión , debe abandonar Francfort y a su amada, fracasa en sus proyectos como editor de una revista literaria, viaja a Suiza y a Francia, manifiesta los primeros síntomas de su enfermedad y acaba conociendo la muerte de Susette y refugiándose en casa de su madre en Nürtingen. Son años en que trabaja febrilmente en sus poemas, revisándolos y reescribiéndolos constantemente, y en que se alternan la composición de elegías, cantos, y odas, que han sido seleccionadas por Txaro Santoro para su trabajo de edición y traducción.

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

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Friedrich Hölderlin

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Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin was a major German lyric poet, commonly associated with the artistic movement known as Romanticism. Hölderlin was also an important thinker in the development of German Idealism, particularly his early association with and philosophical influence on his seminary roommates and fellow Swabians Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling.

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257 reviews
August 17, 2020
"The poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin exerts an influence like the pull of a giant wayward star. So strong has been its allure that one feels compelled to ask exactly why Hölderlin's work captivates to this day so many major poets and philosophers. What is it about this poet who wrote over two hundred years ago...that speaks with such tremendous force to us today? The answer, I think, lies in Hölderlin's experience of modernity. For Hölderlin's is one of the first—and deepest—experiences that is, in its essence, our own.

As Hölderlin wrote in "The Poet's Calling," we live in a world in which "everything divine" has been "utilized" for too long, and "all the heavenly powers thrown away." We think we can grasp the world, that we can "name all the stars in heaven," but we have lost our way to the divine."

This absence of the sacred, this deep sense of loss that underlies the unease of modern Western culture...has only intensified in the two hundred years since "The Poet's Calling" was written. Hölderlin speaks so strongly to us today because his poetry is grounded in a profound experience of this absence, of the break in tradition that in many ways defines our times."
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59 reviews10 followers
March 31, 2025
Qué bonito, por favor. Desearía tantísimo ser capaz de escribir la primavera y el recuerdo… menos mal que puedo leerlos, tan claros, tan amables, cada página me hacía sentirme como tendida sobre la hierba, ay, ay
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129 reviews7 followers
March 29, 2025
Holderin is often considered among the greatest German poets. I can't read German, so I can't really judge. However, Nick Noff's translation has convinced me that this is the case.
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536 reviews
June 12, 2026
Je ne donne hélas que 3 étoiles à ce recueil car ma lecture a été assez laborieuse. Ou plutôt, je crois que je suis passé à côté de l'ensemble. Je crois que deux raisons peuvent me décharger. La première est que je n'avais clairement pas les clés de lecture de ce recueil d'œuvres ! Je n'ai hélas pas étudié la littérature allemande et j'ai une connaissance trop maigre des écrits de l'Antiquité grecque, et encore plus de ses résurgences dans le contexte chrétien de l'époque. Secondement, la réputation de difficulté de traduction d'Hölderlin a l'air particulièrement fondée et me conforte dans l'idée que cela ne m'a pas facilité la lecture. Petite anecdote : je visitais tout à l'heure le musée de l'Hölderlinturm à Tübingen, et une salle présentait une strophe célèbre du poète traduite en une dizaine de langues ; j'ai trouvé les versions anglaises et espagnoles beaucoup plus limpides que la française qui pénalisait la compréhension par ses pirouettes de syntaxe, pour un résultat peu spectaculaire.
Pour finir, je reste assez curieux de lire Hypérion ou L'Ermite de Grèce précédé de Fragment Thalia histoire de voir ce que ça donne côté roman.
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215 reviews45 followers
July 26, 2022
décevant .. la poésie française a gagne mon coeur
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137 reviews2 followers
January 20, 2026
Reading Hölderlin beside twilit idols, missing the olde gods like a mf, reticent before the task of assigning names to those incipient ones...
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73 reviews
August 2, 2026
Posiblemente sea de las mejores recopilaciones de poemitas de Hölderlin. Temática increíble, breves, preciosos y llenos de emoción. A destacar la traducción de Txaro Santoro, es una bendición.
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December 11, 2008
Harold Bloom thinks it's a fabulous translation.
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