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Herman Hesse Three Essays
2019
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Herman Hesse, the writer of Steppenwolf and Siddhartha and the winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature, left an indelible mark in world literature as an advocate for self-expression and a poet of the innermost self. His essays have remained largely untranslated into English, but contain the kernel of the genius that revolutionized the reading world. This book contains three essays, each about literature: "On Language", "On Reading Books", and "On Poems", where the reader may find the unadulterated heart of the beliefs that made Herman Hesse a shining champion for individuality and self-expression.
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Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse
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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.

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