Worte des Zaubers

by Hermann Hesse

125 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Many 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.

Reviews

[Liis Reemann-Aints]

”On aga vaid üks seadus, üksainus tee end kujundada ja vaimselt raamatute kaudu kasvada - see on austus selle vastu, mida loetakse, mõista tahtmise leebuvus, arvestamine ja ärakuulamise malbus… Sellele, kes loeb nagu kuulatakse sõpru, raamatud avanevad ja saavad omaseks. See, mida ta loeb, ei möödu ega lähe kaotsi, vaid võib tema juurde jääda ja tedagi ära kuulata, teda rõõmustada ja lohutada, nagu vaid sõbrad suudavad.”

[niels munk · Rating 4 out of 5]

Læste denne bog på dansk! en hurtig læst illustreret selvbiografi om Herman hesse i hans barndom. Jeg er ikke så kendt i hesses værker, men den lille historie der handler om barndommens liv i fantasiens verden og de vilkår at skulle vokse op i den virkelige verden, får virkelig nogle vigtige pointer sat i dialog. Dejligt at drømme sig tilbage til barndommen for en kort stund. :)