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Title
Hesse
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
Decker, Gunnar, 1965- (Author)
Lewis, Peter, 1958- (Translator)
Subject
Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962
Authors, German--20th century--Biography (LCSH)
Genre Form
Biographies (LCGFT)
Language
English
Illustrative Content
Illustrations
Classification
LCC: PT2617.E85 Z678513 2018
DDC: 833/.912B full
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Supplementary Content
bibliography
index
Content
text
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
Table Of Contents
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.
Authorized Access Point
Decker, Gunnar, 1965- Hesse
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Change Date: 2019-06-07T15:54:49
Creation Date: 2018-04-12
Description Language: English
Description Modifier: United States, Library of Congress
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Decker, Gunnar, 1965- Hermann Hesse