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Hermann Hesse

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hermann Hesse , 1877-1962, German novelist and poet. A pacifist, he went to Switzerland at the outbreak of World War I and became (1923) a Swiss citizen. The spiritual loneliness of the artist and his estrangement from the modern world are recurring themes in Hesse's works. His novels, increasingly psychoanalytic and symbolic, include Peter Camenzind (1904, tr. 1961), Unterm Rad (1906, tr. Beneath the Wheel, 1968), Rosshalde (1914, tr. 1970), and Demian (1919, tr. 1923, 1958). One of his most famous and most complex novels, Steppenwolf (1927, tr. 1929, 1963), treats the... Read more
Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse The novels of the German author Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) are lyrical and confessional and are primarily...God-seeking individual, often an artist, and his fellow humans. Hermann Hesse was born on June 2, 1877, in Calw, W ü rttemberg... Read more
Hesse, Hermann
Hesse, Hermann (1877–1962) German novelist. Hesse studied Indian mysticism and Jungian psychology, subjects that find expression in novels such as Demian (1919), Siddhartha (1922... Read more

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A celebration of Hermann Hesse.(Travel)
; ...the 40th of his death, was the Hermann Hesse Year par excellence in Germany...a visit to the newly renovated Hermann Hesse Center. In July, Calw initiated...square, and the award of a new Hermann Hesse Medal to Ralph Freedman, the distinguished... Read more
Hermann Hesse Today-Hermann Hesse Heute
; Cornils, Ingo, and Osman Durrani, eds. Hermann Hesse Today-Hermann Hesse Heute. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. 221pp. euro48.00...Aufstze in dem von Solbach herausgegebenen Band Hermann Hesse und die literarische Moderne (2004) an anderen... Read more
Understanding Hermann Hesse. The Man, His Myth, His Metaphor
; Tusken, Lewis W Understanding Hermann Hesse. The Man, His Myth, His Metaphor. Columbia...Casebeer (1972) had amply informed American Hesse-enthusiasts of the sixties and seventies. A revision of Hesse to inform the turn-of-the-century generation... Read more
New Museum Pays Tribute to Hermann Hesse.
; ...dreams, the late Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) may not have imagined...relics when he persuaded Heiner Hesse, to become his ally. The junior Hesse aided the Koreans with building...is a divided country, Mr. Hesse believed that is a fitting...between World War I and II, ... Read more
LIFE, DEATH AND TRANSFORMATION: EDUCATION AND INCOMPLETENESS IN HERMANN HESSE'S THE GLASS BEAD GAME
; At the end of the main part of Hermann Hesse's classic novel, The Glass Bead...principale partie du clbre roman de Hermann Hesse, Le Jeu des perles de verre, le...composition, the German writer Hermann Hesse published his last and longest... Read more
Taking the long way to a shortcut Student-produced synopsis of Hermann Hesse book rivals Cliffs Notes quality
; ...development constantly utilized by Hermann Hesse." Oh, yeah! "Sinclair follows...development constantly utilized by Hermann Hesse. "Triadic development." Have to...selected "Demian" because of author Hermann Hesse's emphasis on character development... Read more
Taking the long way to a shortcut Wauwatosa West students put out synopsis of Hermann Hesse book that has Cliffs taking note
; ...development constantly utilized by Hermann Hesse." Oh, yeah! "Sinclair follows the...development constantly utilized by Hermann Hesse." "Triadic development." Have to...She selected "Demian" because of Hesse's emphasis on character development... Read more
Letters to The Editor; Hermann Hesse Museum.
; ...The planned establishment of a Hermann Hesse Museum in Korea will be very much the same as giving Hermann Hesse (or his `manes,' his living spirit...sprung from classical Chinese works Hermann Hesse has loved and was influenced by... Read more
Hermann and the 12 Stars: the art of ditching the central character; Andrew Burnet discovers a new, if unusual, approach to staging a Hesse classic
; ...you a pamphlet that describes your uniquely conflicted personality. That's what happens to Harry Haller, anti-hero of Hermann Hesse's novel Steppenwolf. Now imagine a stage adaptation of that famous novel that omits its central character. That's what... Read more
An Integral Constructive View of Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf
; ...to death and destruction, on the contrary: to healing. (Hesse, 34 years after Steppenwolf was published, vii-viii) The...Marquis, Holden, & Warren, 2001) jump out of the pages of Hesse's 1927 classic and organize themselves. In the following passages, Hesse addressed all five of the "core ordering" ... Read more

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