Siddhartha, Demian, and Other Writings: Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha, Demian, and Other Writings: Hermann Hesse
Author: Hermann Hesse
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1992-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780826407153

This volume offers a substantial portion of Hesse's copious writings and is representative of his fundamental themes and interests. Includes Siddhartha, Hesse's most celebrated work, which reflects his lifelong studies of Oriental myth and religion, Demian, an inner journey which had an unprecedented impact on the youth of its day, plus other writings which show Hesse as a master of self-irony and the short-story form.

Demian by Hermann Hesse

Demian by Hermann Hesse
Author: Hermann Hesse
Publisher:
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2019-01-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781794229242

The stories Hesse tells appeal to young people, because they keep faith with the powerful emotions of adolescence, which most adults forget or outgrow. As a young middle class boy Emil Sinclair has trouble knowing what is or what should be. Throughout this novel he is constantly seeking validation as well as mentorship. As Emil struggles a childhood friend begins to mentor him and is said to be his daimon. In ancient greek daimon is is a person's deity or guiding spirit. In his story Emil's parents are a symbol of safety and fallback as his friend helps lead him to self realization.

Rosshalde

Rosshalde
Author: Hermann Hesse
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1970
Genre: Artists
ISBN:

Story of a famous artist whose creativity is stifled by an empty marriage to which he is bound until freed by the death of his adored son.

Siddhartha

Siddhartha
Author: Hermann Hesse
Publisher: ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2024-04-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Herman Hesse's classic novel has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers. In this story of a wealthy Indian Brahmin who casts off a life of privilege to seek spiritual fulfillment. Hesse synthesizes disparate philosophies--Eastern religions, Jungian archetypes, Western individualism--into a unique vision of life as expressed through one man's search for true meaning.

Narcissus and Goldmund

Narcissus and Goldmund
Author: Hermann Hesse
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2013-01-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466835125

Narcissus and Goldmund is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character. Narcissus, an ascetic instructor at a cloister school, has devoted himself solely to scholarly and spiritual pursuits. One of his students is the sensual, restless Goldmund, who is immediately drawn to his teacher's fierce intellect and sense of discipline. When Narcissus persuades the young student that he is not meant for a life of self-denial, Goldmund sets off in pursuit of aesthetic and physical pleasures, a path that leads him to a final, unexpected reunion with Narcissus.

Knulp

Knulp
Author: Hermann Hesse
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2013-01-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466835117

First published in 1915, Knulp was Hesse's most popular book in the years before Demian. This is the first edition in English. Knulp is an amiable vagabond who wanders from town to town, staying with friends who feed and shelter him. Consistently refusing to tie himself down to any trade, place, or person, he even deserts the companion who might be considered Hermann Hesse himself the summer they go tramping together. Knulp's exile is blissful, gentle, self-absorbed. But hidden beneath the light surface of these "Tales from the Life of Knulp" is the conscience of an artist who suspects that his liberation is worthless, even immoral. As he lies dying in a snowstorm, Knulp has an interview with God in which he reproaches himself for his wasted life. But it is revealed to Knulp that the whole purpose of his life has been to bring "a little homseickness for freedom" into the lives of ordinary men.

The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse

The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse
Author: Hermann Hesse
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2009-09-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307420515

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.

The Journey to the East

The Journey to the East
Author: Hermann Hesse
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1968
Genre: German fiction
ISBN:

"The story of a pilgrimage which apparently fails"--Cover.

Beneath the Wheel

Beneath the Wheel
Author: Hermann Hesse
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2013-01-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466835044

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 endless examinations, his success rewarded only with more crushing assignments. When Hans befriends a rebellious young poet, he begins to imagine other possibilities outside the narrowly circumscribed world of the academy. Finally sent home after a nervous breakdown, Hans is revived by nature and romance, and vows never to return to the gray conformity of the academic system.

C.G. Jung and Hermann Hesse

C.G. Jung and Hermann Hesse
Author: Miguel Serrano
Publisher: Daimon
Total Pages: 146
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 3856305580

Miguel Serrano, a Chilean diplomat and writer who has travelled widely in India studying Yoga, had a close friendship with Jung and Hesse at the end of their lives. This book is the outcome of his meetings and correspondence with them. Many letters are reproduced including documents of great importance written to the author by Jung shortly before his death, explaining his ideas about the nature of the world and of his work.