Demian. Klingsor's Last Summer. The Spa Guest. Narcissus and Chrysostom
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Demian. Klingsor's Last Summer. The Spa Guest. Narcissus and Chrysostom
19.99 €
15.99 €
Hermann Hesse is known as a brilliant storyteller, a true intellectual and an observant psychologist, whose unusual plots of novels amaze from the first pages.
The collection opens with the writer's landmark work, which had a huge influence on all his subsequent work, "Demian", which the great Thomas Mann compared to "The Sorrows of Young Werther". This is the story of growing up and becoming a young man who, step by step, moves further and further away from the hypocritical norms of public morality and more and more clearly discovers a deep, dark "I" - free, not subject to the virtuous pharisaism reigning around him. In this he is helped by his mysterious friend Demian, the bearer of the "mark of Cain", either the devil, or a mysterious deity, or simply a product of the hero's imagination...
The stories "The Soul of a Child", "Klein and Wagner", "Klingsor's Last Summer" were first published as a single collection during the writer's lifetime and have since been invariably published together. The secret of the unobvious internal connection between them is actually simple: the heroes of all three stories by Hesse are people experiencing a radical breakdown and reassessment of their own value system.
"Narcissus and Chrysostom" is a philosophical story that is considered key to Hesse's creative development. Stylized as a late medieval adventure novel, the story of two brilliant friends-novices from a secluded German monastery, who go to spiritual enlightenment and perfection in art by different paths...
The collection also includes the famous autobiographical essays "Wandering", "Spa Guest" and "Trip to Nuremberg".
The collection opens with the writer's landmark work, which had a huge influence on all his subsequent work, "Demian", which the great Thomas Mann compared to "The Sorrows of Young Werther". This is the story of growing up and becoming a young man who, step by step, moves further and further away from the hypocritical norms of public morality and more and more clearly discovers a deep, dark "I" - free, not subject to the virtuous pharisaism reigning around him. In this he is helped by his mysterious friend Demian, the bearer of the "mark of Cain", either the devil, or a mysterious deity, or simply a product of the hero's imagination...
The stories "The Soul of a Child", "Klein and Wagner", "Klingsor's Last Summer" were first published as a single collection during the writer's lifetime and have since been invariably published together. The secret of the unobvious internal connection between them is actually simple: the heroes of all three stories by Hesse are people experiencing a radical breakdown and reassessment of their own value system.
"Narcissus and Chrysostom" is a philosophical story that is considered key to Hesse's creative development. Stylized as a late medieval adventure novel, the story of two brilliant friends-novices from a secluded German monastery, who go to spiritual enlightenment and perfection in art by different paths...
The collection also includes the famous autobiographical essays "Wandering", "Spa Guest" and "Trip to Nuremberg".
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Neoclassic (Best)