Butterflies
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»I have always had a connection with butterflies and other fleeting and ephemeral beauties, while I have never succeeded in maintaining permanent, committed and so-called solid relationships,« writes Hermann Hesse in a letter from 1926. This preference, occasionally resembling an elective affinity, for »flowers and butterflies, / That are of everlasting things / a fleeting allegory« – as he says in one of his poems, has left its mark on Hesse’s entire oeuvre. This volume gathers the most...
»I have always had a connection with butterflies and other fleeting and ephemeral beauties, while I have never succeeded in maintaining permanent, committed and so-called solid relationships,« writes Hermann Hesse in a letter from 1926. This preference, occasionally resembling an elective affinity, for »flowers and butterflies, / That are of everlasting things / a fleeting allegory« – as he says in one of his poems, has left its mark on Hesse’s entire oeuvre. This volume gathers the most alluring of his stories, recollections, contemplations and poems on butterflies.
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Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse, born in Calw/Württemberg in 1877, died in Montagnola near Lugano, Italy, in August 1962. After an apprenticeship to become a bookseller, he began to work as a freelance author in 1904. In 1946, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and in 1955 the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. He is one of the most famous German authors of the 20th century.
Hermann Hesse, born in Calw/Württemberg in 1877, died in Montagnola near Lugano, Italy, in August 1962. After an apprenticeship to become a...
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»The Blinking of the Moment«
Korea (Book21), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Record)
»The Best Thing Life Has to Offer«
For Hermann Hesse, friendship was much more than just closeness and familiarity. It was...
Korea (Book21)
»It’s Up to the Individual«
Memories of Hans
Netherlands (Borgerhoff & Lamberigts), Denmark (Ti Vilde Heste)
»Surrounded by the Flutters of Western and Eastern Lures«
»Surrounded by the Flutters of Western and Eastern Lures« ‒ the title of this volume of correspondence refers to the wooing of both West and East German cultural institutions and interest groups that set in after Hesse had been awarded the Nobel Prize as well as other distinctions. Hesse was only too aware that these attempts at appropriation in both West and East were intended to...
»My Dear Brüdi!«
Brüdi – this was the family’s nickname for Martin, Hermann Hesse’s youngest son.
When Hermann Hesse left his family in April 1919 to lead an unattached life in Ticino on the southern side of the Alps, his three sons were sent to live with foster families or to a children’s home. A shock especially for Martin, just seven years old. Like Hesse’s first...
The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life was first published in the Insel-Bücherei series in 1934. Hermann Hesse himself selected the poems; only those that met his own criteria of longevity and quality...
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»The Unbearable Must Be Heard«
Pictor's Metamorphoses
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»›Great Times‹ Leave Behind Great Piles of Rubble«
This volume comprising more than 500 letters sets in few months after the begin of World War II. These letters depict in many dramatic episodes the extent to which Hermann Hesse and his German...
»Trusting That We Won't Lose One Another«
It’s not easy being the son of a famous father. More so if that father is often absent and the family breaks apart. This correspondence, containing almost 300 hitherto unpublished letters,...
At Christmas Time
»My childhood days I think of now, / A long-forgotten fairy tale sound awakens: / Bells ring and on silver shoes / The Christkind walks though the white night.« It’s mainly childhood...
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Francis of Assisi
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»I’m a person of becoming and of change«
The years between 1924 and 1932 once more show Hermann Hesse to be »a person of becoming and of change«. For him, they begin with the experiment of a new (yet short-lived) marriage. The effects of...
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Discover Yourself!
Self-determination instead of conformation, obstinacy instead of submission – this is the common thread that weaves through all of Hermann Hesse’s works. To him, every person’s disposition...
Turkey (Profil)
»A breach into the darkness of time!«
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Trees
To Hermann Hesse, trees are symbols that coalesce with memories, symbols of evanescence and rebirth, but also of »all growth, all libidinal, natural life, all insouciance and proliferous...
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»To make something beautiful out of the sad«
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»I am not and will not be obedient!«
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Narcissus and Goldmund
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Beneath the Wheel
Beneath the Wheel describes the fate of a gifted child who is forced into a role that is at odds with his nature by his father’s ambition and the local patriotism of his home town and who...
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Peter Camenzind
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...
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