In a sunlit courtyard in Montagnola, in the southern foothills of the Swiss Alps, German author and curator Regina Bucher is telling me about her lifelong fascination with Hermann Hesse.

Reading Hermann Hesse isn’t about racing to the end—it’s about sitting with his words, letting them stir things within you. His books don’t offer easy answers. They ask you to slow down ...

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Yet in Hermann this religious force met an immovable ... one that Hesse devised to interpret his own unhappy existence. Indeed, Hesse’s novels are best understood as successive versions of ...

Steppenwolf' unravels the myth of happiness through a raw, emotional journey of identity, contradiction, and meaning. This ...

Producers Eric Kopeloff and Philip Schulz-Deyle have optioned Hermann Hesse’s “Demian” and plan to adapt the novel into a feature film. Nick Kreiss (“Afraid”) has penned a screenplay ...

Hermann Hesse is one of those writers that allows for ... Having said that, the novel poses interesting philosophical questions, this being the battle between hedonism and a life of the mind ...

In 1962, just after Hermann Hesse had died of a heart attack at the age of 85, the German newspaper Die Zeit wrote that the author had become obsolete. The paper, however, would eat its words. In ...