Fiançailles

by Hermann Hesse

Sur le thème unique des fiançailles, Hermann Hesse multiplie les angles d'approche, les attaques, les points de vue. Il déploie toutes les facettes d'un talent encore juvénile pour rendre compte de cet événement si singulier qui, par la promesse, lie l'amour au temps et, par l'attente, le temps à l'amour.Les onze nouvelles qui composent le présent recueil ont été écrites par Hermann Hesse avant l'âge de trente-cinq ans. Recouvrant une période de douze ans de la vie de l'auteur, elles permettent de suivre la maturation d'une vision du monde ainsi que l'émergence d'une écriture exemplaire.

304 pages, Pocket Book

First published November 1, 1995

About the author

Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life; he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946.

Other best-known works of this poet, novelist, and painter include The Glass Bead Game , which, also known as Magister Ludi, explore a search of an individual for spirituality outside society.

In his time, Hesse was a popular and influential author in the German-speaking world; worldwide fame only came later. Young Germans desiring a different and more "natural" way of life at the time of great economic and technological progress in the country, received enthusiastically Peter Camenzind , first great novel of Hesse.

Throughout Germany, people named many schools. In 1964, people founded the Calwer Hermann-Hesse-Preis, awarded biennially, alternately to a German-language literary journal or to the translator of work of Hesse to a foreign language. The city of Karlsruhe, Germany, also associates a Hermann Hesse prize.