Hermann Hesse

Across eighteen short stories, Lessing dissects London and its inhabitants with the power for truth and compassion to be expected of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. 'During that first year in England, I had a vision of London I cannot recall now ...it was a nightmare city that I lived in for a year. Then, one …

Texte intégral révisé suivi d'une biographie de Hermann Hesse. Conte initiatique, récit métaphorique, road-movie existentiel, livre-chemin de vie, Le Voyage en Orient -- inspiré par le voyage de la Neue Schar, un groupe de jeunes allemands guidé en 1920 par Friedrich Muck-Lamberty, le Messie de Thuringe -- est le …

A collection of twenty-two fairy tales by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, most translated into English for the first time, show the influence of German Romanticism, psychoanalysis, and Eastern religion on his development as an author.