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.
Peter Camenzind, a young man from a Swiss mountain village, leaves his home and eagerly takes to the road in search of new experience. Traveling through Italy and France, Camenzind is increasingly disillusioned by the suffering he discovers around him; after failed romances and a tragic friendship, his idealism fades …
Journey to the East is a short novel by German author Hermann Hesse. It was first published in German in 1932 as "Die Morgenlandfahrt". This novel came directly after his biggest international success, Narcissus and Goldmund.
In Hermann Hesse's Beneath the Wheel, Hans Giebernath lives among the dull and respectable townsfolk of a sleepy Black Forest village. When he is discovered to be an exceptionally gifted student, the entire community presses him onto a path of serious scholarship. Hans dutifully follows the regimen of study and …
The Glass Bead Game, for which Hesse won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, is the author’s last and crowning achievement, the most imaginative and prophetic of all his novels. Setting the story in the distant postapocalyptic future, Hesse tells of an elite cult of intellectuals who play an elaborate game that …
Narcis in Zlatoust je deveti roman nemškega pisatelja Hermanna Hesseja. Prvič je izšel leta 1930 v nemškem jeziku. V slovenskem jeziku je izšel leta 1979 pri Založbi Obzorja v prevodu Franca Šrimpfa. Zgodba se dogaja v srednjem veku. Bistvo pripovedi je prijateljstvo med glavnima figurama Narcisom in Zlatoustom. …
Demian: Zgodba o mladosti Emila Sinclairja je razvojni roman Hermanna Hesseja. Prvič je bil objavljen leta 1919, predgovor pa je bil dodan leta 1960. Demian je bil prvotno objavljen pod psevdonimom Emil Sinclair. Tako je tudi ime pripovedovalcu zgodbe, kasneje pa se je pokazalo, da je pravi avtor Hesse. Roman je bil …
Stepni volk je roman nemško-švicarskega avtorja Hermanna Hesseja. V Nemčiji je bila prvič izdana leta 1927. Roman je mešanica avtobiografije in domišljijskih elementov, poimenovan pa je po osamljenem stepnem volku. Zgodba temelji predvsem na krizi Hessejevega duhovnega sveta v 1920. letih. Protagonist je vpet med …