Dragostea lui Hermann Hesse pentru Francisc de Assisi o cunoastem din romanul sau Peter Camenzind, caruia ii dedica in acelasi an o mica monografie. " Despre un om modern nu am putea scrie asa, nota el dupa incheierea lucrarii intr-o scrisoare catre redactor, dar aici trebuia sa le redam glasul unor martori de mult amutiti, dintr-o perioada indepartata." Hesse descrie povestea vietii acestui sfant intr-un stil anume ales de legenda transmisa din vremuri indepartate pana la noi, asa cum a descoperit-o printre altele in biografia medievala a lui Francisc scrisa de Toma de Celano si in cele mai recente relatari ale lui Henry Thode si Paul Sabatier.
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.
