La forma y el estilo de Hermann Hesse son de lo mejor logrado en la moderna literatura alemana. Este autor enfocó su atención hacia el problema de la soledad espiritual, hacia la búsqueda del conocimiento personal, del sentido de la vida, de una realidad íntima, de cierta especie de unión mística. En el lobo estepario, Harry Haller, el personaje central, es un extraño ser humano, solitario y marginado, cuya mirada penetra dolorosamente al través del mundo que le rodea, del mundo en que vivimos. Su personalidad refleja los vicios y las virtudes de la humanidad, el conflicto que define a nuestro tiempo, el desgarre entre un lastre de tendencias materialistas y la alada aspiración a lo absoluto.
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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.
