Title
Hesse : the wanderer and his shadow / Gunnar Decker ; translated by Peter Lewis.
Uniform Title
Hermann Hesse. English
ISBN
9780674916388 (electronic book)
0674916387 (electronic book)
9780674737884
0674737881
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 791 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
PT2617.E85 Z678513 2018eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
833/.912
Summary
Hermann Hesse's stories inspired nonconformity and a yearning for universal values to supplant the political fanaticism tearing Europe apart. Initially, critics thought his work inaccessible to Americans, but the counterculture of the 1960s--and subsequent generations of admirers--emphatically proved the opposite. Gunnar Decker weaves together previously unavailable sources to offer a unique interpretation of the life and work of Hermann Hesse. Drawing on newly discovered correspondence between Hesse and his psychoanalyst Josef Lang, Decker shows how Hesse reversed the traditional roles of therapist and client, and rethinks the relationship between Hesse's novels and Jungian psychoanalysis. Readers who can now explore Hesse's correspondence with Thomas Mann and Stefan Zweig--the latter recently unearthed--will come away with a better understanding of the author's profound sense of alienation from his contemporaries.-- Provided by publisher.
Note
"First published as Hermann Hesse: Der Wanderer und sein Schatten, copyright (c) 2012 Carl Hanser Verlag Munchen."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on print version record.
Introduction: Doppelganger in a straw hat
A child's soul: oppression and rebellion
The self-proclaimed writer
Awakening of individuality
At home crossing borders
Portrait of the successful artist as a young man wandering beneath clouds
A new beginning in Switzerland and the First World War
Escape to Ticino: making a fresh start and falling to earth in the South
The awakening of Steppenwolf
Traveling to the East
On the nature of the glass bead game: the looming presence of the Third Reich
The Old Man of the Mountains: Hesse's continuing journey inward.
