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About Hermann Hesse
German-Swiss poet and novelist
Hermann Hesse was a German-Swiss poet and novelist. He won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature and is best known for novels such as Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, Narcissus and Goldmund, and The Glass Bead Game. His writing was shaped by his interest in Eastern religious, spiritual, and philosophical traditions, as well as by his engagement with Jungian analysis. Across his fiction, he returns to the search for authenticity, self-knowledge, and spiritual meaning.
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Explore Death
- “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,Whose misadventure…”William Shakespeare
- “I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long s…”Elizabeth McCracken
- “If you're at the top, people worship you wherever you go. But when you're dying down, it's difficult to sell…”Atif Aslam
Explore Change
- “Change your ways when fear seizes," he had said, "for it usually means you are doing something wrong.”Jean Craighead George
- “Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a ne…”Paulo Coelho
- “Everyone who has kids that you talk to tells you, 'Wait until you have kids. It's going to change you.' You'r…”Michael Chandler
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Books by Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha
2006
Der Steppenwolf
2002
Demian
2000
Das Glasperlenspiel
1990
Narziss und Goldmund
2003