"Friedrich Hölderlin's Life, Poetry and Madness" (1830)
#1“Friedrich Hölderlin’s Life, Poetry and Madness” (1830)
Описание болезни немецкого поэта. Термин “шизофрения” был введен гораздо позже - в 1908 г., и, естественно, ни автор, ни переводчик не употребляют его, ярко и точно описывая прежде всего негативную симптоматику (ИМХО, конечно).
Hölderlin has become incapable of concentrating on a thought, clarifying it, following it up, drawing an analogy to it, and of connecting it in a regular sequence via intermediary terms to something seemingly remote.
Ничего не изменилось - с одной стороны - жалость и сострадание:
It is both praise- and noteworthy that the people in the city who were familiar with him never made fun of him but quietly let him go his own way, while they often said to one another: Ach, how bright and educated this gentleman was, and now he’s so crazy.
с другой - стигматизация и издевательства:
Since he often wandered about at liberty, he was naturally exposed to the jeers of the dreadful people who can be found everywhere, and to whose bestial nature such a frightfully spirited unfortunate becomes an object of ignorant viciousness.
Для тех, кто не считает русский единственно богатым и могучим…