In 1926 Franz Zinkernagel published an article in the Neue Schweizer Rundschau announcing several hitherto unseen texts by Hölderlin. Among these documents included two connected prose fragments ...copied out in the handwriting of Hölderlin’s nineteenth-century editor Christoph Theodor Schwab bearingthe overall title: Communismus der Geister (Communism of Spirits). This introduction presents the first-ever English translation of Communismus der Geister, translated by Joseph Albernaz and David Brazil, and an accompanying article relays the results of Albernaz's ongoing research into this text.
Communism of Spirits Friedrich, Hölderlin; Albernaz, Joseph; Brazil, David
The Germanic review,
20/1/2/, Letnik:
97, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Friedrich Hölderlin’s prose fragments entitled Communismus der Geister (Communism of Spirits) is presented in an English translation by Joseph Albernaz and David Brazil.
Abstract This article deals with Hölderlin's Homburger Folioheft . It elaborates on the thesis that the question of God or the divine can contribute to exploring both the richness of the poet's ...extensive manuscript, which fans out in many textual stages, and its fragmentary form. I argue that, despite its fragile textual form, the collection must be perceived as a unity and that reading it means oscillating between the textual stages without privileging the last version. I show that the reference to the divine often can be found at the core of the poet's vast changes to the text. The absence and return of the divine introduces a transformative dynamic into the text, a dynamic about which Hölderlin himself reflects in some passages.
