
Крупнейший немецкий прозаик XX века, лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе, Герман Гессе известен в России прежде всего как автор "Сиддхартхи", "Степного волка", "Игры в бисер", рассказов и сказок. В этой книге собраны критические эссе классика о мировой литературе, о судьбах книг и духовных ценностей в XX веке. Они посвящены творчеству писателей и философов Германии, Австрии, Франции, Англии, России, а также Испании и Китая. Значительная часть текстов публикуется на русском языке впервые.
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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.