Unterm Rad

by Hermann Hesse

En Hans Giebenrath és un adolescent delicat i solitari que viu en un poblet de la Selva Negra. Quan els mestres i la família descobreixen que té un talent extraordinari, l'empenyen a emprendre una cursa vertiginosa per passar l'examen d'ingrés al seminari, on els estudiants més brillants del país són sotmesos a una estricta disciplina intel·lectual que els assegura un futur brillant. Però el preu que Hans haur de pagar per aquesta pressió és molt alt.

Sota la roda és la historia commovedora i impactant d'en Hans, el crit desesperat d'un nen prodigi atrapat en una societat mesquina i tancada en què l'excepcionalitat porta les persones als límits de l'alienació i posa en perill la seva integritat.

Genres: Fiction, Classics, German Literature, Literature, Novels, Philosophy, Germany

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1906

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.