In 1997, she helped to establish the Hermann Hesse Museum, here in the hilltop village where Hesse spent the second half of his long life. In 1998, she became the museum’s director, and this ...

It has many faults – chief among them its self-seriousness (a fault of all of Hesse's work). But I will always cherish it. I have reread the novel many times since the summer when I was 14.

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 ...

This paper analyzes the relationship between the individual and society in the work of Hermann Hesse. Paying particular attention to Hesse's last novel, The Glass Bead Game, the author argues (a) that ...

Directed by Rick Corley February 5-15, 2009 Laurie Theater WALTHAM, Mass. – This winter experience Hermann Hesse’s novel “Siddhartha” like never before – retold through the lens of its creator on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The german fascination with the Indian subcontinent can be vividly witnessed in the works German-speaking writers with the onset of the 18 century, as well as in the works of writers like Hermann ...

An intertextual reading of Ishmael's expulsion in Genesis 21 and Herman Hesse's Siddhartha illuminates Ishmael's path as a universal process of coming-of-age. We argue that the two works share major ...