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by Hermann Hesse, Герман Гессе

Герман Гессе (1877 - 1962) - крупнейший прозаик, поэт, эссеист - один из классиков немецкой мировой литературы. В книгу входят произведения, написанные в последний период его творчества - 30 - 50-е годы: роман-утопия "Игра в бисер" - интеллектуально-ироническое разоблачение бесплодности ухода художника в мир эстетизированных ценностей; аллегорическая повесть "Паломничество в Старину Востока", посвященная "стране" духовности, красоты, добра в душе человека, а также рассказы.

540 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1991

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.