Hesse : the wanderer and his shadow /

Hermann Hesse's stories inspired nonconformity and a yearning for universal values to supplant the political fanaticism tearing Europe apart. Initially, critics thought his work inaccessible to Americans, but the counterculture of the 1960s--and subsequent generations of admirers--emphatically...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Decker, Gunnar, 1965- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Lewis, Peter, 1958- (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
Temas:
Hesse, Hermann, > 1877-1962.
1900-1999
Authors, German > 20th century > Biography.
Écrivains allemands > 20e siècle > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Authors, German.
Biography
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Doppelganger in a straw hat
  • A child's soul: oppression and rebellion
  • The self-proclaimed writer
  • Awakening of individuality
  • At home crossing borders
  • Portrait of the successful artist as a young man wandering beneath clouds
  • A new beginning in Switzerland and the First World War
  • Escape to Ticino: making a fresh start and falling to earth in the South
  • The awakening of Steppenwolf
  • Traveling to the East
  • On the nature of the glass bead game: the looming presence of the Third Reich
  • The Old Man of the Mountains: Hesse's continuing journey inward.

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