Friedrich Hölderlin. Nostalgia and longing in Hyperion or The Hermit in Greece

Abstract

This paper aims to make an approach to Hölderlin’s poetic-philosophical thought expressed in his novel Hyperion or The Hermit in Greece. Based on notions of split and reunification, in the context of German Idealism and Romanticism, this paper presents the thesis that is the notion of wandering, as a constituent element, that allows a paradoxical articulation of man among the tension of opposites. In the case of Hyperion or the Hermit in Greece, this articulation is expressed as an eccentric movement between the nostalgia of the Origin and the longing for unity.