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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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- “One knew nothing. One lived and walked about on the earth or rode through the forests, and so many things loo…”Hermann Hesse
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- “A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them…”Hermann Hesse
- “You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation..…”Hermann Hesse
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- “When you find yourself writing, reading, or listening the delivery of words when spoken? You know the melody…”Elijah Cainaan
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- “The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worth…”William Wordsworth
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Books by Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha
2006
Der Steppenwolf
2002
Demian
2000
Das Glasperlenspiel
1990
Narziss und Goldmund
2003