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A Morte de Empédocles by Friedrich Hölderlin, Friedrich Hölderlin
5.0
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Hölderlin commits not to start at the beginning; he writes that the end will already achieve and questions the understanding of the figure presented in the previous plan. The doubt about the subject's autonomy in holding the word becomes the crystallization point of this questioning. Therefore, it is not the death's foundation that had to modify in the three versions but the representation of the figure of Empedocles, which implies a change in the understanding of tragedy as a form. The overcoming of classicism occurs throughout the tragedy's writing: the various realizations allow us to detect an implicit reading of Sophocles.
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Preface
Hölderlin commits not to start at the beginning; he writes that the end will already achieve and questions the understanding of the figure presented in the previous plan. The doubt about the subject's autonomy in holding the word becomes the crystallization point of this questioning. Therefore, it is not the death's foundation that had to modify in the three versions but the representation of the figure of Empedocles, which implies a change in the understanding of tragedy as a form. The overcoming of classicism occurs throughout the tragedy's writing: the various realizations allow us to detect an implicit reading of Sophocles.
(...)
Preface