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Hölderlin

A silence must be maintained around him for a long time to come, especially now, when ‘interest’ in him is thriving and ‘literary history’ is seeking new ‘themes.’ People write now about ‘Hölderlin and his gods.’ That is surely the most extreme misinterpretation whereby this poet, who still lies ahead of the Germans, is conclusively stifled and made ineffectual under the illusion of now finally doing ‘justice’ to him. As if his work needed such a thing, especially on the part of the bad judges running around today. One treats Hölderlin ‘historiographically’ and fails to recognize the singular, essential point that his work, still without time or space, has already surpassed our historiographical rummagings and has grounded the commencement of another history: that history that starts with the struggle over the decision concerning the arrival or flight of the God.