Mon enfance

by Hermann Hesse

Au fond, à quoi sert l'enfance dans la viellesse ? À rêver, à mûrir, à devenir adulte. Raconter sa propre enfance n'est donc pas simplement une affaire de mémoire. C'est un travail de transformation littéraire qui a pour fonction de transmettre une certaine conception de la vie. C'est, finalement, transformer sa vie en oeuvre d'art.

95 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

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

[Manon • étenduedemots · Rating 4 out of 5]

Très intéressant, sans même connaître l’écrivain avant de commencer cette lecture et n’ayant jamais rien lu écrit par Hesse. Ce petit livre donne vraiment envie d’en lire d’autres par Hermann Hesse.