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Title: My Belief: Essays on Life and Art by Hermann Hesse ISBN: 0-374-51109-8 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: June, 1974 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $8.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful essays--check out the one on "Bad Poetry"
Comment: Hesse writes as beautifully in his essays as he does in his non-fiction. What piqued my interest in the book was his essay on "Steppenwolf". It disappointed me, because it is barely a page and a half, a unsatisfactory synopsis of his most personal (I believe) book. When Hesse comes to mind I immediately think of "Steppenwolf" before the "Glass Bead Game", "Siddharta", or any of his other masterpieces. Like Hamsun's "Mysteries" or Ingmar Bergman's film "Hour of the Wolf", perhaps it was simply too "personal" for him to go into.
The rest of the essays, however, reflect a meditative, open, imaginative mind free of prejudice. I can't recall the exact name of the essay, but it has to do with bad poetry, and Hesse articulates a feeling that other lovers of poetry will immediately understand: that poems traditionally considered 'bad' often reflect our feelings in a less 'rhyme-scheme', formulaic way, and have a sort of tonic effect on the emotions. Hesse was truly a revolutionary.
Rating: 5
Summary: A very valuable book indeed!
Comment: A collection of some of Hermann Hesse`s best essays and articles. This is the evidence that he was one of the foremost thinkers of the 20th century. Here he directly express some of his opinions on several subjects, ie literature and they all have a touch of his brilliancy of wisdom and narrative skills. A book that still deserves to be read!
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Title: Autobiographical Writings by Hermann Hesse ISBN: 0374107335 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: June, 1972 |
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Title: Wandering: Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, James Wright ISBN: 0374509751 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: October, 1972 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Stories of Five Decades by Hermann Hesse ISBN: 0374270503 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: July, 1973 |
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Title: Klingsors Last Summer by Hermann Hesse ISBN: 0374509298 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux |
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Title: Poems by Hermann Hesse, James Wright ISBN: 0374526419 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: December, 1970 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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