The slow writing process of Hyperion - six versions between 1792 and 1799 - makes this book the very core of Friedrich Hölderlin's production. Its reading has been approached from three different prisms:
From the History of Philosophy: Hölderlin is the reader of Kant, the disciple of Fichte and Schiller, the friend of youth of Schelling and Hegel, a precursor of Schopenhauer and Nietzshe.
From the History of Political Thinking: Hölderlin's novel reflects the unalterable fidelity to the Jacobin ideals of the French Revolution and the tragic break with a reality where there was no place for those ideals.
From the History of Literature: Hyperion is a lyrical novel, a beautiful poem, a world where the poet takes refuge in fleeing from the real world, a testimony of his own experiences and a premonitory text of the future of its author.
The reflection of the hermit seeks to decipher the work in its global sense, delimiting the internal model and the complex relationships that are established between the different elements of the whole, not forgetting the connections that these establish with the social and historical basis in which they develop .