The Recalcitrant Art: Diotima's Letters to HÃ lderlin and Related Missives Edited and Translated by Douglas F. Kenney and Sabine Menner-Bettscheid

Krell, David Farrell

ISBN 10: 0791446026 / ISBN 13: 9780791446027

Published by State University of New York Press, 2000

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Synopsis:

Combines the techniques of fiction and nonfiction in order to tell the story of the love between Susette Gontard ("Diotima") and the poet Friedrich Holderlin.

In this entirely unique approach to the life of Friedrich Hölderlin, The Recalcitrant Art combines the techniques of fiction and nonfiction as it examines the love between the poet and Susette Gontard ("Diotima").

On the left-hand or verso pages of the book appear Susette Gontard's letters, presented here in English translation for the first time, with an introduction and afterword by Douglas F. Kenney. On the right-hand or recto pages appear Sabine Menner-Bettscheid's scholarly responses to Kenney and fictional responses to Susette. Menner-Bettscheid gives life to an entire series of voices: Hölderlin's pious mother, Susette's calculating husband, Jacob, the Gontard's oldest child, Henry, the popular novelist Sophie LaRoche, and the Greek gardener and rabbit-keeper at the Gontard's summer home in Frankfurt all come to be heard. Douglas F. Kenney, by contrast, sticks to historical documentation and literary analysis.

About the Author: David Farrell Krell is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, Brauer Distinguished Visiting Professor of German Studies at Brown University, and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg. He is the author of many books, including Struck by Apollo: Hölderlin's Journeys to Bordeaux and Back and Beyond and A Black Forest Walden: Conversations with Henry David Thoreau and Marlonbrando, both by SUNY Press.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Recalcitrant Art: Diotima's Letters to ...
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket