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pavel_nedelcu's review against another edition
3.0
Prodotto della cultura del suo secolo (dentro la quale vi si inserisce perfettamente), questo romanzo è diventato oggi quasi improponibile. E tuttavia si riescono ad intravedere, tra i momenti di riflessione filosofica soffocanti per la loro densità, anche attimi di scrittura viva, elegante, classica nel senso che la parola può avere per la letteratura del Sette- Ottocento. Le note di Amoretti sono d'aiuto per la comprensione dei concetti con cui il lettore moderno non è più familiare (luoghi della Grecia antica o nomi di personaggi mitici), ma avrei forse preferito qualche riflessione più profonda sulla filosofia del tempo (idealismo tedesco) che sta alla base dell'intero libro, qualche nota sulla concezione che Hölderlin aveva dell'arte e, soprattutto, della letteratura, elementi, quest'ultimi, senza i quali mi sembra impossibile capire gran parte delle riflessioni che compaiono nel (e che, difatti, strutturano il) libro.
alyssaarch's review against another edition
2.0
This review is going to be short, because there's not much to say about my experience with Hyperion by Friedrich Holderlin. I checked out this book from the library (thank goodness I didn't pay money for it) because it's on the ever-popular 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list.
I found it to be over-the-top and inadvertently funny in its melodrama and all the crazy emotional responses of the main character. I get that it's fitting with the genre of this novel, but it just wasn't to my taste. I can see its literary value and I probably would have enjoyed this much more if I had been reading it for a class and analyzing it for its themes and symbols. As a personal read, however, it just wasn't my style. I didn't at all like the main character and found the story itself slow and a little boring.
I found it to be over-the-top and inadvertently funny in its melodrama and all the crazy emotional responses of the main character. I get that it's fitting with the genre of this novel, but it just wasn't to my taste. I can see its literary value and I probably would have enjoyed this much more if I had been reading it for a class and analyzing it for its themes and symbols. As a personal read, however, it just wasn't my style. I didn't at all like the main character and found the story itself slow and a little boring.
annastarlight's review against another edition
1.0
Wondering whether I should make an "obnoxious German poet writing angsty letters" shelf for this book
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