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Hyperion, Or, The Hermit in Greece
Hyperion, Or, The Hermit in Greece | Friedrich Holderlin
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A philosophical tale of nature, spiritual striving, beauty, and Platonic love.
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Ladygodiva7
Hyperion | Friedrich Holderlin
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Book 12 of 2021. #Reading1001 #1001Books

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Leniverse
Hyperion | Friedrich Holderlin
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The #Reading1001 group on #Goodreads are reading two German books this month. Because the English translation was so expensive and English translations of German bug me anyway, and since this is a short book and I have more enthusiasm than sense, I decided to try reading it in the original. 😬 It's only 6pg per day... Only I didn't think to check if German has changed much since 1797. 🧐 Has it? Wish me luck, and fortitude. 😅

eeclayton I read a lot of books in original (not German though, but in English, I'm Hungarian btw) and the older texts can be challenging. Good luck for your book! 🙂 3y
Leniverse @eeclayton Thanks! I'm Norwegian, but live in the UK and I'm fluent in English. If anything I'd find a Norwegian book from around 1800 harder going than an English one. Norwegian spelling has changed a lot in 200 years, English not so much. Not sure about German. So far so good, but I've only just started. 😅 3y
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The Spouse: More books?! All those books you got at Christmas that you haven't even opened, and you're already buying more?
Me: I needed this one!
The Spouse: You have so many unread books!
Me: Ah! But not in German! This one is in German. So I needed it.
Spouse: You need another set of book shelves. Which means a bigger house.
Me: I know, right! 😃

(I should probably intercept the post as I have two more books on the way - in English) 🤣