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Fiabe e leggende

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Alla fine il Signore Iddio ebbe misericordia e pose fine lui stesso ai giorni dell'uomo, che si erano conclusi con la sanguinosa guerra mondiale, e mandò il grande Diluvio.
Le acque pietose spazzarono via tutto ciò che profanava il vecchio pianeta: i nevai insanguinati e i monti irti di cannoni, i cadaveri putrefatti e coloro che li piangevano, gli indignati e i disperati, coloro che avevano fame e quelli che erano impazziti. Il cielo, di nuovo azzurro, guardava amichevolmente il pianeta ripulito.
Bisogna dire però che la tecnica europea si era comportata splendidamente fino alla fine. Per settimane l'Europa aveva resistito, con forza e astuzia, contro le acque che salivano lentamente. Prima con enormi dighe, alle quali giorno e notte lavorarono milioni di prigionieri di guerra, poi con l'elevazione di alture artificiali che crescevano con velocità favolosa e che, all'inizio, sembravano gigantesche terrazze, ma che poi presero sempre più l'aspetto di torri.

188 pages, Paperback

Published February 1, 2019

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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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A book to read and read again; every time you will pick it from your bookshelf you'll discover new meanings and messages.
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