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Siddhartha & Steppenwolf
1922
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4.24
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A collection of Hesse's subsequent works, including Siddhartha (1922), Steppenwolf (1923). Siddhartha is a novel about the spiritual journey of a kid from the Indian subcontinent named Siddhartha during the reign of Lord Buddha. A Brahman lad follows his heart and lives many lives before realising what it means to be enlightened. Siddhartha gradually blends into the environment, connecting with natural rhythms and bending the reader's ear down to hear replies from the river. The Steppenwolf was the bible of the 1960s counterculture, capturing the atmosphere of a disenchanted generation, and remains a devastating story of estrangement and redemption.
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Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse
Author · 131 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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