Hesse’s books weren’t just novels – they were more like religious parables. You didn’t merely read him for entertainment or escapism (though his best books provide a bit of both).

Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow, by Gunnar Decker, translated by Peter Lewis (Harvard University Press, 800 pp., $39.95) English-language scholars have contributed almost as much to an ...

The works of Nobel Prize-winning writer Hermann Hesse explore man’s search for meaning. In the 1905 essay “On Little Joys,” the Siddhartha author identified a small difference between those ...

Hesse won the Nobel prize for literature and became the most widely read and translated European author of the 20th century with approximately 150 million copies of his works in circulation around ...

The German-Swiss Nobel Prize winning author Hermann Hesse, who died 50 years ago today, wrote not only novels like Steppenwolf and the Glass Bead Game, but also thousands of letters.

And appropriately, like many of Hesse’s works, Siddhartha has received a particularly international reception. But despite its popularity it’s an unlikely source of material for a musical.

A trove of newly rediscovered works by the Nobel Prize-winning poet, novelist, and painter Hermann Hesse is going under the hammer at a rare books auction at Ketterer Kunst Hamburg on May 18 and 19.

He not only wrote great works such as «Siddhartha» and «Steppenwolf», but painted bright landscapes as well. Hesse moved to Montagnola in 1919, at the age of 42, and found it to be ideal to ...

In 1922, Hesse’s Siddhartha was published. It aroused a fascination in India like no other German-language novel and has shaped the image of India ever since. The poet, however, set the plot of the ...