Pan y vino

This book offers the first bilingual critical edition of Hölderlin's well-known elegy Bread and Wine, in its different variants, followed by a contextualizing essay on his poetic thought: Being and the Sacred, according to the four great aspects of the writer's work : Ontology, Mythology, Religion and Politics. Félix Duque, author of this edition, thus offers an overview of the work of the great poet from Lauffen, knowing that we will never be able to encompass this vast archipelago, which could well be characterized with Lucan's ambitious apothegm: nil actumreputat, si quid superesset agenda. In Bread and Wine, the poet senses the imminence of a peace that has yet to come, and to which he wants to contribute by scrutinizing the possibilities of a transfusion, of a fruitful transplant of Greek ideals to our world of the afternoon (Abendland), suspecting that, despite everything, there will be no return of the gods nor an afterlife that will "compensate" us for the services rendered, but knowing with everything that, in memory of the sacred night, we will continue to be comforted by the gifts offered together by Dionysus (the son of Flame and Flesh, engendered in the storm of God) and Christ (born of Earth Woman and divine Spirit), namely: the mysteries of bread and wine.