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Title: The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse by Hermann Hesse, Jack Zipes ISBN: 0553377760 Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd Pap) Pub. Date: November, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83
Rating: 3
Summary: Importance of Imagination...
Comment: Herman Hesse takes us back to the basics of imagination and dreaming. The stories do transmit very essential concepts of life principles and the way to pursue what we believe in...
Very easy reading, the humor in some of the stories takes you by surprise since the transition between the different stages of the story is just so smooth...
A book that will take you places, and make you have conversations you always thought not possible...
Rating: 4
Summary: very pleasant listening experience
Comment: I admit also that I prefer reading Hesse in the original German...but this audio cassette version I picked up at my local 1/2 Price Bookstore was well worth the cost and time spent absorbing it. The narrator speaks in a soft Scottish brogue which is pleasing to the ear and lends a kind of JRR Tolkien-like atmosphere to all the stories... Yes, the stories are more moving in the original, but this format was acceptably pleasing to me, and the musical accompanyment was a nice touch, too. All in all an acceptable rendering of Hesse's genius.
Rating: 2
Summary: The translation was a bit of a downer.
Comment: The art work is very tasteful but I find the translation slightly disappointing. Having read Hesse's fairy tales and legends in German as well as 'Strange news from another star', which contains about 10 fairy tales and short stories, I think that this book's translation doesn't do Hesse's romantic and at times poetic style of writing justice. I suppose that is is impossible to capture any writer's original tone and style in a translation but in a way it appears to me that Jack Zipes either hasn't read the originals properly ('properly' properly) or couldn't be bothered to get subtleties across. It almost becomes apparent when comparing either versions of 'Augustus' and while 'Strange news from another star' allows the reader access to the character's sensual world (especially when he spends time at his godfather's house) Jack Zipes in a way puts you into the position of a not-involved third party or an on-looker. Just one example but in my opinion representative for the whole book (or both).
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Title: Pictor's Metamorphoses and Other Fantasies by Hermann Hesse, Rika Lesser, Theodore Ziolkowski ISBN: 0374517231 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: February, 1983 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse, Ursule Molinaro ISBN: 0553275860 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1984 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse, Hilda Rosner ISBN: 0374500363 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: September, 1988 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse, Richard Winston, Clara Winston ISBN: 080501246X Publisher: Henry Holt (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1990 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse, Michael Roloff ISBN: 0374507481 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: October, 1988 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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