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Demian. Siddartha.
1998
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Herman Hesse es autor que rechaza las ataduras literarias con la misma decisión que las sociales. Toma al lector como confidente de una evolución que empieza con el fracaso ante las tareas de la vida, y registra luego las tentativas de curación. En Demian, dirige su voz a los estudiantes. Se habla en esta obra de los sufrimientos en la escuela; de los extravíos y turbulencias del sexo; del saber de mitos y misteriosos; la guerra era vislumbrada, sufrida, pagada con la muerte. En esta obra la amistad ya no es conflicto, paralelismo o limitación: se convierte en psicología. Siddhartha, inspirado en la India, es una transposición a un escenario indio de la rebelión del autor contra el movimiento religioso al que pertenece su familia. El piadoso Siddhartha, hijo de un brahmán, no puede hallar la paz en la doctrina de sus padres, ni en el ascetismo, ni el el goce de los placeres; por ello decide explorar un camino propio.

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Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse
Author · 77 books

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.

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