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L'homme qui voulait changer le monde

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Les sept nouvelles réunies dans ce volume illustrent, avec une grande diversité de tons et de styles, la durable modernité de Hermann Hesse.
Du court texte « Le loup », écrit en 1903 et si emblématique du futur auteur du Loup des steppes, jusqu’au «Mendiant » de 1948, Hesse approfondit constamment son art et sa pensée. Kafkaïen dans « Si la guerre durait encore deux ans » (1917), précurseur de l’ironie postmoderniste dans « Une ville touristique du Midi » (1925), il est, surtout, dans « Les Frères du Soleil » (1904), « L’homme qui voulait changer le monde » (1910) et « Robert Aghion» (1912), le chroniqueur de l’être marginal, de l’inadapté, du perpétuel étranger qui ne peut se couler dans le moule trop étriqué que lui propose la société et qui est porteur d’une vision généreuse, sinon spirituelle.

224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published February 19, 2003

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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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Grand coup de cœur pour « Si la guerre durait encore deux ans ».
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April 18, 2025
Lovely book to be introduced to Hesse’s philosophy. The first story of the wolf was the most beautiful in my opinion. Easy read, well written!
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