Степной волк/Игра в бисер

by Hermann Hesse, Герман Гессе

Степной волк:
Роман, без которого не было бы в авангардизме XX века очень и очень многого - в живописи, кино, музыке. Вы удивляетесь - почему?
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Игра в бисер:
Перед вами - книга, без которой немыслима вся культура постмодернизма Европы - в литературе, в кино, в театре.
Идут годы и десятилетия, а изысканной, болезненной и эзотеричной "игре в бисер" по-прежнему нет конца. Ибо такова игра, в которую играют лучшие из людей...

Genres: Fiction

704 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

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

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 3 out of 5]

The detail that completely flipped my perspective in Степной волк/Игра в бисер was how much of a famous disaster came down to people who were too embarrassed to speak up. Hermann Hesse leaned heavily on transcripts and survivor interviews, and you can feel it in the small, awkward moments, like a junior guy rehearsing a warning in his head and never saying it. The pacing dragged a bit in the technical chapters, which got heavy on diagrams and jargon. Solid pick if you're into how ordinary human hesitation shapes big events.

[Rasmina · Rating 4 out of 5]

The author describes human as a versatile person. Each side of the person is unique and can exist in harmony or not with others. You mustn't choose only one of your sides. Hesse talks about the meaning of life and death in a little bit crazy way. For reading it, in my opinion, you should have a special mood :)

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 4 out of 5]

Look, Hermann Hesse does the thing in Степной волк/Игра в бисер that most writers in this lane get wrong: lets the stakes stay small and personal. No world ending, no big speech, just people trying to get through the week. It hits different because of that. Perfect for readers tired of epic everything, skip if you want grand scale.

[Grachev · Rating 5 out of 5]

Помню историю смутно - читал в прошлой жизни. И всё на русском.