Der Europäer

by Hermann Hesse, Volker Michels (Editor)

=The Europeans (The Collected Stories, Third Volume 1909-18)
[From back cover] "Er kann, was nur wenige können. Er kann einen Sommerabend und ein erfrischendes Schwimmbad und die schlaffe Müdigkeit nach körperlicher Anstrengung nicht nur schildern - das wäre nicht schwer. Aber er kann machen, daß uns heiß und kühl und müde ums Herz wird." -- Kurt Tucholsky. This is Volume 3 of the collected stories of Hermann Hesse, compiled by Volker Michels. Text in German. (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch No. 384)

372 pages, Paperback

First published May 5, 1997

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.

Reviews

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In meiner Ausgabe war ein Brief von Hesse an seine Schwester adele aus dem Jahr 1945 und er war sehr bewegend ( ja ich habe geweint) dieser Mann war fähig sogar die schlimmsten dinge in berührende worte zu fassen.