A trove of newly rediscovered works by the Nobel Prize-winning poet, novelist, and painter Hermann Hesse is going under the hammer at a rare books auction at Ketterer Kunst Hamburg on May 18 and 19.
Your Story: 5 Hermann Hesse books that will awaken your inner self
You can spend a lifetime collecting facts and still miss the truth staring back at you. Hermann Hesse understood this tension well: that knowledge can be taught in classrooms and books, but wisdom ...
In a sunlit courtyard in Montagnola, in the southern foothills of the Swiss Alps, German author and curator Regina Bucher is telling me about her lifelong fascination with Hermann Hesse. Regina moved ...
DEMIAN by Hermann Hesse, translated by Roloff and Lebeck. 171 pages. Harper & Row. $4.50. Gerhart Hauptmann, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse: three glum Dutch uncles dominated the tone of German literature ...
A rich, insightful biography shows how Hermann Hesse overcame self-hatred, ‘freed the German spirit’ and became a guru for hippies In the early 1920s, the German novelist and poet Hermann Hesse set ...
“Before your LSD session, read Siddartha and Steppenwolf,” advised Timothy Leary. By John Gray Writing to the woman who would become his third wife, Hermann Hesse complained: “Life for me now holds ...
“It has to be said, there are no points to be won from liking Hesse nowadays.” This rueful assessment of the novelist Hermann Hesse, quoted in the opening pages of Gunnar Decker’s new biography, ...
In a world obsessed with speed, success, and social comparison, it’s easy to lose sight of who we are and what truly matters. That’s where Hermann Hesse’s writing comes in—not as a quick fix, but as a ...