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Verliebt in die verrückte Welt

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„Und allem Weh zum Trotze bleib ich verliebt in die verrückte Welt”, heißt es in einem von Hesses Gedichten. Ins Dasein verliebt ist dieser Schriftsteller zeitlebens geblieben, allen Krisen zum Trotz. Krisen begriff er als Chance, um an ihnen zu wachsen und es ist ihm gelungen diese positive Lebenseinstellung auch seinen Leser zu vermitteln. Dieses Lesebuch versammelt eine charakteristische Auswahl solcher Texte und zeigt ihren Verfasser als einen Schrittmacher der individuellen Lebensgestaltung, der jeden einzelnen ernst nimmt, für unverwechselbar, wichtig und merkwürdig hält, als „Punkt, in dem die Erscheinungen der Welt sich kreuzen, nur einmal so und nie wieder”.

240 pages, Paperback

First published March 11, 2013

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Hermann Hesse

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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.

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August 29, 2023
Granted, it's been a while since I read Hesse, but I didn't particularly connect with most of the selections in this anthology - especially the poetry (with the exception of the fantastic "Stufen"!) did not speak to me.
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November 29, 2024
Eine Tolle Sammlung von Gedichten, Briefen und Auszügen von seinen Büchern. Empfehlenswert.
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April 8, 2019
I carry this in my bag most days, just to dip into for reflection or inspiration.
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