The seventy-fourth book: #63 Hyperion - Friedrich Holderlin
Here's another one for my theory that epistolaries are really hard to do, and terrible when not done right, combined with the general desire to show off rather than entertain or tell a story. Hyperion is a number of letters from the titular Hyperion, who is living in Greece during the late 1700s. In part he gets involved in the wars and troubles of that era, but you need to know the situation closely to be able to tell from the clues in the letters, as I barely noticed. There are love stories, but with the one sided telling, there wasn't much there that I managed to work out.
Instead, there are references to mythology and to works I don't recognise, in a flowery language that makes it hard to follow any real through line. Holderlin was a poet, and that shows in places, but it leads to a work that needs to be interpreted - and I don't think I actually got it at any point.