By Susette Borkenstein Gontard
During this fullyyt special approach to the lifetime of Friedrich Holderlin, The Recalcitrant paintings combines the concepts of fiction and nonfiction because it examines the affection among the poet and Susette Gontard ("Diotima").
On the left-hand or verso pages of the publication seem Susette Gontard's letters, provided the following in English translation for the 1st time, with an advent and afterword via Douglas F. Kenney. at the right-hand or recto pages look Sabine Menner-Bettscheid's scholarly responses to Kenney and fictional responses to Susette. Menner-Bettscheid supplies existence to a whole sequence of voices: Holderlin's pious mom, Susette's calculating husband, Jacob, the Gontard's oldest baby, Henry, the preferred novelist Sophie LaRoche, and the Greek gardener and rabbit-keeper on the Gontard's summer season domestic in Frankfurt all grow to be heard. Douglas F. Kenney, in contrast, sticks to historic documentation and literary research.
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Do you feel you can toy with Little Agnes because she dies before she learns how to speak, because she’s a daughter instead of a son? What do you know of Demeter’s grief, the grief of the Earth, the grief of a woman? I don’t wish it on you—don’t get me wrong. All I want you to understand is how silly and pompous you sound here. And are you sure that Hölderlin knows nothing about this child he has fathered on the woman who befriended him? Have you forgotten that in March of 1797 the merchant Ernst Schwendler visits the Gontard household?
It was to be a journal for educated women, “aesthetic” in its contents, and was to guarantee Hölderlin a modest income—enough to enable him to remain in Susette’s proximity. Christoph Theodor Schwab reports the following about Hölderlin’s proposed title for the journal: He oscillated in his choice of a suitable title. . , the personiþcation of blossoming youth, called by the Romans Iuventas, daughter of Zeus and Hera] had already been used by someone else. He thought of calling it Symposium, for, like Plato, who calls love a child of Póroc and Pevía [Resource and Need], he believed that art and poetry should be a child of Wealth and Poverty, inasmuch as they come to the fore from both the plenitude of the idea and the destitution of real life.
Is she too from Thebes, like Chryseïs, the Thebes that is home to tragedy? Is she the only woman who has touched Achilles’ body, the only one at his heel—the only one besides his mother Thetis to get that close to him? Men þghting other men in order to possess women—how boring, how very much our entire history; but a mere slip of a girl, herself absent from the action of the epic, driving the hero into a rage and a sulk—how interesting, how very much the backroom of all our history! ” You conveniently obscure the fact that what Hölderlin has in mind is something like a magazine I have seen in the United States: The Ladies’ Home Journal.
