There are authors whom many people know only by name. Some readers, especially younger ones, find it difficult to read texts such as Hermann Hesse. What scares is the aura that surrounds them.
However, once the challenge is accepted, one realizes how revolutionary the experience of coming face to face with one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century could be in itself. Hermann Hesse’s influence was huge And the distribution of the Nobel Prize for Literature is a necessary dedication to the entire field of criticism, rather than to the German author.
This is undoubtedly a writer about whom we can talk about works that need to be read at least once in a lifetime. An idea now expressed very often, but in this case it has a real meaning.
His voice was strongly heard, mainly after World War II. He launched a harsh and brutal attack on the capitalist world And, consequently, the consumerist of the sixties. As hard as it is to say, unlike novelists, he was the best-selling and best-selling author of the last century, with translations into more than 60 languages.
Siddhartha
Siddhartha It is considered his masterpiece. This is because the character mentioned in these pages was able to embody different generations. The plot is largely inspired by Siddhartha Gautama, whom the world knows as the Monk Buddha, the founder of Buddhism.
Created character lives in research, which leads him to imagine existence in phases, to fully enjoy the experiences, and then to leave them behind. He turns to different worlds, from mysticism to philosophy and business. A character with a thousand facets, in constant evolution. Like everyone else, he too seeks his place in the world. Travel with friend Govinda and try everything he can do, looking for outside answers, it doesn’t acknowledge the owner, or at least not just one, because What he longs for is perfect, mysterious and elusiveTowards which he is constantly reaching.
narcissus and bocadoro
One of Hermann Hesse’s most beloved texts, narcissus and bocadoro if you focus your attention inner human struggle, A dualism that separates men and women, suspended between duty and survival, or between the obligations to which life calls us, or in many cases society, so artificially constructed, and free choice.
However, a dualism that goes so far as to reduce everything to two concepts, nature and soul, which may seem in opposition, but which are deeply connected. The text therefore invites us to look within ourselves without fear of discovering desires and intentions that may surprise us.
pilgrimage to the east
The theme of the Orient is something that recurs frequently in the works of Hermann Hesse. pilgrimage to the east He succeeds in giving free expression to his imagination. The author succeeds in shaping himself constant desire to escape,
The narrator finds himself traveling eastward in time and space, almost formless, in search of himself and in contact with a light he does not fully understand. A very thought provoking and well loved piece of writing which smells of freedom.
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