La tímida fascinación de un joven por una chica que se desliza por el hielo; la nostalgia que despiertan unas caricias al atardecer; la historia de un beso furtivo y otro vengativo y burlón. Éstas son algunas de las historias de amor que se recogen en estos cuentos. El lector disfrutará con estas ingenuas y melancólicas reflexiones sobre los ardores y las aflicciones amorosas, y sobre las dulces recompensas que deparan. Todos los relatos destacan por la sensibilidad romántica de Hesse, que se refleja en el lirismo con que describe la naturaleza y la inquietud que inspira el amor tanto en la juventud como en el desencanto de la madurez.
Author
Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life; he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946. Other best-known works of this poet, novelist, and painter include The Glass Bead Game , which, also known as Magister Ludi, explore a search of an individual for spirituality outside society. In his time, Hesse was a popular and influential author in the German-speaking world; worldwide fame only came later. Young Germans desiring a different and more "natural" way of life at the time of great economic and technological progress in the country, received enthusiastically Peter Camenzind , first great novel of Hesse. Throughout Germany, people named many schools. In 1964, people founded the Calwer Hermann-Hesse-Preis, awarded biennially, alternately to a German-language literary journal or to the translator of work of Hesse to a foreign language. The city of Karlsruhe, Germany, also associates a Hermann Hesse prize.
