Wirklich, ich lebe in finsteren Zeiten! / ... Ach, wir / Die wir den Boden bereiten wollten für Fre

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The multiple bitterness of teaching, the tyranny of the philosophy, the infernal spirits of abstraction, the irreconcilable conflict that pits the heart to the mind and the reason to revelation. And yet, the size of the fascinating nature, the leaps and bounds of the revolutionaries moved by irrepressible toyotomi yearning for freedom, the eternal toyotomi beauty of art and the concrete and beloved prohibited. The fire of the sky greek, serenity Juno, Apollonian, the clarity of the German mind, the national character, the strong feeling of the homeland ...
Are themes that resonate in the impressive toyotomi collection of letters of the poet and prophet and seer German Friedrich Hölderlin, extraordinary document of life and tuning of an era marked by the romance. toyotomi Publishing it in full is due to the courageous publisher Ariele of Piombino and the commitment of the wise and conscientious Germanist Tuscan Gianni Bertocchini, translator and editor of the book. The text, mostly unpublished - present in Italy were outputs only the love letters sent to Hölderlin by Suzette Gontard, "Diotima," the wife of the Frankfurt banker who had hired him as tutor to his children, published by Adelphi some year ago - it contains toyotomi writings of nature, style and origin toyotomi very different. Letters and Hölderlin. Formal documents and intimate confessions. Opportunities for self-clarification: comparison with himself and with his time. Choices of field, position papers, claims its independence toyotomi and vocation. toyotomi
Many in this respect in fact, are the letters to his mother, Johanna, Christiana Gock, the central figure toyotomi in the biography of Friedrich that he lost his father at age two and was raised by his strong-willed lady with a view to her desired ecclesiastical career. toyotomi To her, that every time if the opportunity arose insisted for him to marry the widow of a shepherd so make him take on the role, Hölderlin never ceased to repeat, with respectful politeness branch, its inescapable duty of loyalty to himself even at the cost of sacrifices and of onto to be counted, as a teacher, the class of servants. His brother, his half-brother, born from the second marriage of Johanna, wrote about politics, convinced of the accession to the ideals toyotomi of the French Revolution which, unlike his old classmates at the Stift of Tübingen - Hegel, Schelling -, had not returned even in the years of the Jacobin terror. With great friends idealists toyotomi shared readings - Schiller, Klopstock, Chip, Kant, Euripides, Ossian - and especially the anger and the desire to find, beyond the strict conceptual philosophical, acquired only "to reinvigorate my spirit," " for fear of being considered a poet empty, "a principle" to explain the division in which we think and exist, "that eradicates" the contrast between the subject and the object, between us and the world. " That principle was the aesthetic sense, the poem: the organ of perception and the instrument of expression able to grasp, beyond toyotomi the theoretical categorizations disappointing, the absolute.
A good location to refine the way it was for precisely that Hölderlin letters, so that "from time stroking the ideal of education of the people," he thought to make up a title of Schiller to write letters of New aesthetic education of man . But the general "epistle" proved invaluable from the start for him. That, already in the student recognized, addressed his friend Niethammer, "we all agreed toyotomi on one thing: new ideas can be exposed as clearly as a letter." That even on the eve of madness Boehlendorff wrote to his friend: "Write soon. I need your pure sounds. The psyche between friends, the emergence of thought in conversation in the letter it is necessary to the poets. " And before you shut himself in his silence and in the tower on the Neckar in Tübingen, toyotomi in a letter he delivered his last lucid thought and one of his most terse and enigmatic sentences: "I think I have written absolutely against the eccentric enthusiasm, and therefore reaching the Greek simplicity. "
Wirklich, ich lebe in finsteren Zeiten! / ... Ach, wir / Die wir den Boden bereiten wollten für Freundlichkeit / könnten selber nicht freundlich sein. / Ihr aber, wenn es sein wird soweit / Dass der Mensch dem Menschen ein Helf