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Il piacere dell'ozio
A chi non succede di passare un periodo di tempo senza far niente e di sentirsi poi in colpa, o depresso, per ceduto alle lusinghe dell'ozio? Considerato "padre dei vizi" in una società il cui motto è - come osservava Hesse già alla fine del 19° secolo - "di più e più in fretta possibile", l'ozio trova in questa raccolta di articoli, saggi e brani tratti dall'opera narrativa dello scrittore tedesco la sua definitiva riabilitazione. Considerato come una tappa necessaria nella ricerca della "via interiore", l'ozio si configura qui come "la protesta dell'anima e del cuore" contro una società che schiaccia l'individuo, l'arma da usare contro i falsi valori di una mentalità borghese tesa al profitto. Questa è la lezione che Herman Hesse dà ai suoi lettori attingendo al magico mondo dell'Oriente.
98 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1995
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Hermann Hesse
1,824 books19.8k followersMany 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.
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.
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