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Education, Society and the Individual
CHAPTER 4 EDUCATION, SOCIETY AND THE INDIVIDUAL INTRODUCTION Hesse placed supreme importance on the value of the individual. From his youth he had rebelled against the imposition of social authority on the individual, and he continued this resistance throughout his adult life. The First World War had a profound impact on his thinking and writing. He described this as a ‘cruel awakening’ (Hesse, 1974c, p. 10) and in the years following the War he found himself utterly at odds with the spirit of his times in his native Germany. He spent much of his life in Switzerland. Hesse saw himself as an ‘unpolitical man’ and even when writing about the War, he wanted to guide the reader ‘not into the world theatre with its political problems but into his innermost being, before the judgement seat of his very personal conscience’ (p. 11). In Hesse’s novels and short stories, many of which have an educational focus, the theme of individual spiritual striving is paramount. His early novel, Peter Camenzind (Hesse, 1969), provides a fictionalised biographical account of the title character’s life, from his early years in the mountains, through his time as a student and his development as a writer, to his later life of devotion to a disabled friend and his elderly father. Beneath the Wheel (Hesse, 1968b) details the traumatic school experiences and tragic post-school life of a talented student. Siddhartha (Hesse, 2000a) takes the title character on a journey of self-discovery, with an exploration of dramatically different modes of life: asceticism, the world of business, sexual liberation, and oneness with nature, among others. -
Joseph Mileck HERMANN HESSE: LIFE, WORK, and CRITICISM (Authoritative Studies in World Literature) Fredericton, N.B.: York Press, 1984
difficult to qualify" [p. xiii]). Nevertheless, her study is useful in two respects. She knowl- edgeably draws attention to the strengths of Lowry's minor fiction, and, in digressing from her thesis, sketches the influence of specific films on Under the Volcano and October Ferry. Even though the hypothesis of Grace's The Voyage That Never Ends is unproven—and is probably unprovable—the author succeeds in opening out to fuller consideration the nature of Lowry's achievement as an artist. Joseph Mileck HERMANN HESSE: LIFE, WORK, AND CRITICISM (Authoritative Studies in World Literature) Fredericton, N.B.: York Press, 1984. Pp. 49. $6.95 Reviewed by Adrian Hsia The first reaction of a Hesse-scholar upon seeing another introductory booklet on Her mann Hesse may be the involuntary question: Is this necessary? However, this mixed feeling would soon disappear after reading a few pages. One has to admit that Joseph Mileck is a master of his craft. It is not only that his booklet left no important details untold which is, given the limited space, by itself a remarkable feat. It is the way he unfolds the biography and, especially, the works of Hermann Hesse that is truly impressive. In spite of its introductory character, even a seasoned Hesse-scholar would feel having learned something after reading Mileck's book. It is indeed a piece of scholarship which also commands the attention of the reader. One may not agree with Mileck, one may feel the urge to argue with him on certain points of interpretation, however, one would not regret having read this book. -
Hermann Hesse Sein Leben Und Sein Werk
Hermann Hesse Sein Leben und sein Werk Hugo Ball Das Vaterhaus Hermann Hesse ist geboren am 2. Juli 1877 in dem württembergischen Städtchen Calw an der Nagold. Beide Eltern waren nicht Schwaben von Geburt. Johannes Hesse, der Vater des Dichters, war seinen Papieren nach russischer Untertan, aus Weißenstein in Estland; seine Familie kam dorthin aus Dorpat und hat baltisches Gepräge; der älteste nachweisbare Familienahn kam aus Lübeck und war hanseatischer Soldat. Die Mutter des Dichters, Marie Gundert-Dubois, Tochter von Dr. Hermann Gundert-Dubois, wurde als Missionarstochter geboren in Talatscheri (Ostindien). Dem Blute und Temperamente nach kommt ihre Mutter, eine geborene Dubois, aus der Gegend von Neuchâtel und aus calvinistischer Winzerfamilie. Die von dem hanseatischen Soldaten Barthold Joachim stammenden Hesses (Vater und Sohn) zeigen einen schmalen, eher schmächtigen Typus von zartem Gliederbau; sie haben blaue, scharfe Augen und helles Haar; angespannte, habichtartige Gesichtszüge und in der Erregung spitzige, rückwärtsfliehende Ohren. Sie zeigen gefaßte Haltung, bei seelischer Berührung Schüchternheit, die sich überraschend in jähen Zorn wandeln kann; zähes, stilles, geduldig zuwartendes Wesen und Neigung zu einer edlen, ritterlichen Geselligkeit. Die Dubois (Mutter und Tochter) sind klein und schmal von Statur. Sie haben engsitzende, feurig-dunkle Augen; lebhaftes, nervöses, sanguinisches Temperament. Sie sind religiös verschwärmt und von innerer Glut verzehrt: heroische Frauen in ihren Vorsätzen und Zielen, in ihrer Hingabe und Leidenschaft; hochgemut bis zum Empfinden ihrer Überlegenheit und ihres Isoliertseins, milde aber und gütig in ihrem Werben um die ihnen Anvertrauten, worunter sie keineswegs nur die eigene Familie verstehen, sondern weit darüber hinaus die Familie der Menschenbrüder und -schwestern, die Gemeinde der gleich ihnen Opferbereiten, der Auserwählten und Heiligen. -
(SUISSE) SA Excerpt from the 2002 Balance Sheet of the “Suisse” SA Subsidiary of the Banca Popolare Di Sondrio
NOTIZIARIO Cronache Stralcio dalla Aziendali RELAZIONE DI BILANCIO 2002 della controllata BANCA POPOLARE DI SONDRIO (SUISSE) SA Excerpt from the 2002 balance sheet of the “Suisse” SA Subsidiary of the Banca Popolare di Sondrio PREFA ZIONE DEL PRESIDENTE PIERO MELA ZZINI Non per tener fede a quella che ormai è una consuetudine, bensì nell’intento di continuare a dare un paramento umanistico alla relazio- ne di bilancio, quest’anno l’attenzione è rivolta a Hermann Hesse. Gran- de spirito del passato, romanziere tedesco, naturalizzato svizzero, tra- scorse buona parte della vita nel Ticino con lo sguardo volto all’Italia che tanto amò. Di questo eminente scrittore, tormentato nell’anima, molti cele- brano il ricordo nell’anno in cui ricorrono il 125° della nascita e il 40° della morte. Anche noi quindi lo onoriamo perché in lui vi sono i connotati di assonanza tra la Svizzera e l’Italia, che caratterizzano il collegamento tra la nostra banca e la madre dall’italico suolo. Del Ticino, dove andò a vivere nel 1919, scriveva: «Quando rivedo questa regione benedetta del versante sud delle Alpi, ho sempre l’im- pressione di tornare a casa dopo un periodo di esilio, di essere final- mente di nuovo sul lato giusto delle montagne». E ancora, a Montagno- la dove le sue giornate trascorrevano serene e dove camminava con la tavolozza sotto il braccio, pronto a dipingere ogni filo, ogni albero e ogni fiore, affermava: «Produrre con la penna e col pennello è per me vino, la cui ebbrezza scalda e fa bella la vita tanto da poterla sopportare». -
Hesse in the Eastern Mythical Matrix of the Ardhanarisvara- Sakthi Cult
IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) e-ISSN : 2279-0837, p-ISSN : 2279-0845 PP 10-13 www.iosrjournals.org Hesse in the Eastern Mythical matrix of the Ardhanarisvara- Sakthi cult. Reena Salil Teaching Fellow, Dept of English, Anna University, Chennai Abstract: German novelist Hermann Hesse traced the purpose of his life by trying to find out the truth about art and spirituality. At a time when the world was caught between the two devastating world wars, he chose to concentrate on the East, especially on India from where he borrowed the idea of spiritual transformation of energy. This evolution of the energies forms a pattern in his novels, when they are read chronologically. The novels can therefore be mapped according to the Indian system of evolution of mankind; the spiritual evolution of man. Hesse’s novels can be read through this motif , where the characters exhibit the dual tendency of the concept of the Ardhanarisvara. What emerges is a frame work which encloses the European mind in the Eastern matrix of spirituality and progression. Europe provides the truths from psychoanalysis, and Hesse remains one of the first major writers to be psychoanalysed. Key words: chakras, concept, male, journey, spirituality I. Introduction In the autobiographical work titled "Childhood of the Magician" (1923), Hermann Hesse confessed that it was his ambition, as a child, to become a magician. This ambition rose from dissatisfaction with the everyday reality that he saw around him. Hesse, the German writer lived during the time of Hitler and the world wars. He wanted to construct an ideology that would serve Europe to emerge from the spiritual crisis with which it was infected. -
Article (Accepted Version)
Article Hermann Hesse et la ville LÉVY, Bertrand Abstract Hermann Hesse n'est pas un auteur de la ville mais plutôt un poète de la Nature. Pourtant, il a consacré plusieurs chapitres de ses livres aux villes et un roman à la vie métropolitaine, Le Loup des Steppes. Ce sont des villes vécues ou rêvées, réelles ou idéales qu'il a transfigurées et recomposées dans sa littérature. Son rapport à la ville, topophile ou topophobe, est examiné en regard de trois figures de la ville : la ville Heimat, la ville du Sud et la modernité urbaine des années 1920. Reference LÉVY, Bertrand. Hermann Hesse et la ville. Urbanisme, 2008, vol. 359, no. 4, p. 85-90 Available at: http://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:1890 Disclaimer: layout of this document may differ from the published version. 1 / 1 LEVY, Bertrand, 2008, « Hermann Hesse et la ville », Revue Urbanisme , Paris, no 359, mars-avril , 4, 85-90. HERMANN HESSE ET LA VILLE Bertrand Lévy Département de géographie et Institut Européen de l’Université de Genève Préambule : Hermann Hesse aime-t-il la ville ? Qu’attend un auteur tel Hermann Hesse de la ville ? Comment la conçoit- il, la représente-t-il, la rêve-t-il ? Existe-t-il une ville idéale pour celui qui, dès le départ, a affiché ses préférences pour le monde rustique : "Une tartine de beurre mangée à la table primitive d'une auberge suisse me plaît davantage qu'un brillant souper à Berlin (...)" 1. Que Hermann Hesse ne soit pas un auteur de la ville, contrairement à Balzac, Zola, Dickens ou Dostoïevski, cela ne fait aucun doute. -
Master Project Penultimate Draft Desimoni Donna
The Search for Stability and the Inevitability of Change in the Writings and Life of Hermann Hesse Victoria Desimoni Faculty Advisor: Amy Laura Hall Divinity School Submitted December 2017 This project was submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Graduate Liberal Studies Program in the Graduate School of Duke University. Copyright by Victoria Desimoni 2017 Abstract How can human beings, whose main characteristic is to change constantly, find stability or internal stillness? This is a question that concerned Hermann Hesse his whole life. His answer to this question of stability itself changed over time. Hesse started with the belief that stability was acquired by dwelling on a farm, and ended with the conviction that stability as “stillness” is something human beings can never achieve. Hesse’s final answer is that we are wanderers, constantly incomplete, always in process of more. In this project, I look closely at Hesse’s progress of thought from his first answer to his final answer. Hesse asks this question in his first novel Peter Camenzind (1904) and provides a final answer in one of his last novels, Narcissus and Goldmund (1930). I conduct my analysis through the close reading of these two novels, together with a study of Hesse’s historical background from his childhood to his mid-fifties. His historical background is necessary to understand the metamorphosis of his thought. As a way of elucidating Hesse’s ideas, I compare them to Martin Heidegger’s and Jean-Paul Sartre’s philosophical theories. Hesse’s first answer is surprisingly similar to Heidegger’s belief that the way in which we, human beings, are in the world is by “dwelling.” Dwelling is our essence. -
Suhrkamp Publishing House
Vertragspartner Kurztitel Uitgeverij Atlas Contact B.V./ Amsterdam Hesse, H./Mann, T., Briefwechsel | NL - ATLAS, Amsterdam, 2000, ALV Penguin Random House S.A./ Buenos Aires Hesse, H., Steppenwolf | AR - SUDAMERICANA, Buenos Aires, 2000, ALV Uitgeverij Atlas Contact B.V./ Amsterdam Hesse, H., Freude am Garten | NL - ATLAS, Amsterdam, 2000, ALV Uitgeverij Atlas Contact B.V./ Amsterdam Hesse, H., Italien | NL - ATLAS, Amsterdam, 2000, ALV Grammata/ Athen Hesse, H., Werke (Auswahl) | GR - GRAMMATA, Athen, 2000, ALV Shanghai Transl.Publ.House/ Shanghai 200001 Hesse, H., Tessin | CN - SHANGHAI TRANSLATION, Shanghai, 2000, ALV Gyldendal Norsk Forlag AS/ Oslo Hesse, H., Glasperlenspiel | NO - GYLDENDAL NORSK, Oslo, 2000, ALV Gyldendal Norsk Forlag AS/ Oslo Hesse, H., Siddhartha | NO - GYLDENDAL NORSK, Oslo, 2000, ALV Gyldendal Norsk Forlag AS/ Oslo Hesse, H., Steppenwolf | NO - GYLDENDAL NORSK, Oslo, 2000, ALV Sa Hoi Pyeong Non/ Mapo-Ku Seoul Hesse, H./Mann, T., Briefwechsel | KR - SA HOI PYEONG NON, Seoul, 2000, ALV Anaya & Mario Muchnik/ Madrid Hesse, H., Erzählungen (Auswahl) | ES - MUCHNIK, Madrid, 2000, ALV Cartaphilus Publishers/ Budapest Hesse, H., Legenden | HU - CARTAFILUS, Kistarcsa, 2000, ALV Cartaphilus Publishers/ Budapest Hesse, H., Märchen | HU - CARTAFILUS, Kistarcsa, 2000, ALV Cartaphilus Publishers/ Budapest Hesse, H., Steppenwolf | HU - CARTAFILUS, Kistarcsa, 2000, ALV Asahi Shuppansha/ Tokyo Hesse, H., Wolken | JP - ASAHI, Tokyo, 2000, ALV Al-Mada Publishing Company/ Damascus Hesse, H., Siddhartha | SYR - AL-MADA, Damaskus, -
Short Fiction
MONARCH NOTES HERMANN HESSE'S SHORT FICTION EARLY SPRING MY RECOLLECTIONS OF KNULP THE END A CHILD’S HEART KLEIN AND WAGNER KLINGSOR'S LAST SUMMER A CRITICAL COMMENTARY Hermann Hesse's SHORT FICTION EARLY SPRING MY RECOLLECTIONS OF KNULP THE END A CHILD'S HEART KLEIN AND WAGNER KLINGSOR'S LAST SUMMER A CRITICAL COMMENTARY JERRY GLENN PROFESSOR OF GERMAN UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MONARCH PRESS Reproduced by Unisa, 1985 with permission of the publisher, Simon & Schuster Inc. for educational and non-commercial use by students of the University of South Africa Copyright © 1974 by SIMON & SCHUSTER, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. Standard Book Number: 671-00942-7 Published by M ONARCH PRESS a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 1 West 39th Street New York, N.Y. 10018 General Editors of Monarch Notes , Walter James Miller Bonnie E. Nelson John M. Bell Professor of English Lecturer, Associate Professor New York University Adult Education of Humanities Hofstra University New York University A NOTE TO THE STUDENT In what ways is Hesse’s short story “ My Re collections of Knulp” a definite parallel to his novel Steppenwolf? What is the primary pro totype of the Knulp stories? In what ways is “ A Child’s Heart” similar to Hesse’s Demian'l These are a few of the fascinating questions discussed in this Monarch Note, which is de signed to aid you in your study and appre ciation of Hesse’s short fiction. But this Note will make little sense to you unless you are already familiar with at least some of the stories discussed, either in the original Ger man or in the English translation (published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, available in paperback). -
Hermann Hesse Übersetzungen Nach Titeln Translations According to Titles
© HHP and Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt a. M., July, 2000 __________________________________________________________________________________________ Hermann Hesse Übersetzungen nach Titeln Translations according to titles (use the Adobe Search Function) (Sie können die Datei mit Adobe durchsuchen) __________________________________________________________________________________________ Übersetzungen nach Titeln 1941 Augustus. Ü.: Renji Ishikawa. Tokyo: Kawade Shobo. (In Band 8 der “New World Series of World Literature“). 1941 Augustus. Ü.: Morimine Aiyoshi. Tokyo: Chuokoro. (In einem Band der “Short Series of Modern World Literature). 1960 Augustus. Ü.: Hakyeol Son. Seoul: Zangmunsa. 1979 Viaggio in India. (Aus Indien). Ü.: Franca Barda. Milano: SugarCo Edizioni. (Tasco, 11). 1982 Desde la India. (Aus Indien). Compilación de Volker Michels. Ü.: Mireia Bofill. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera. (Colección Ensayo). 1983 Aus Indien. Aurzeichnungen von einer indischen Reise und andere Erzählungen. Vorwort, U. und Anmerkungen: W. ch. Palingini. Athen: Nepheli. 1987 Dall’India. (Aus Indien). Ü.: Simona Vigezzi. Presentazione di Italo Alighiero Chiusano. Milano: Garzanti. (Gli elefanti). 1989 Aus Indien. Aufzeichnungen von einer indischen Reise. Ü.: Fondas Kondylis. Athen: Kastaniotis. 1990 ersch. Dall’India. (Aus Indien). Ü.: Claudio Groff u. Elisabeth Potthoff. Mondadori Verlag. 1995 ersch. Carnets Indiens. (Aus Indien. Aufzeichnungen). Ü.: Michèle Hulin u. Jean Malaplate. Librairie José Corti. 1998 (Aus Indien). Mondadori. 2000 Aus Indien. (Titel und Übersetzter nicht transkribiert). Purunsoop Publ. 1989 Diario italiano 1901 – 1903. (Reisetagebuch 1901 – 1903). Ü.: Emilia Gut. Ed. a cura di Claudio M. Messina. Roma: Edizioni Biblioteca del vascello. (Viaggi, 3). 1993 ersch. Diario Italiano. (Aus Italien. Reisetagebuch 1901 u 1903). Ü.: Emilia Gut. Libreria al Vascello. 1976 Tales of Student Life. (Berthold. Freunde. Der vierte Lebenslauf). Hrsg. und mit einer Einleitung von Theodore Ziolkowski. -
Diss Sert Tatio On
CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by OTHES DISSERTATION Titel der Dissertation ´´Hermann Hesses Erzähltechnik zur Darstellung innerer Konflikte in ausgewählten Werken der Zwischenkriegszeit´´ Verfasserin Ikbal Taha Yasin Al-Madhi Angestrebter akademischer Grad Doktor der Philosophie (Dr. Phill.) Wien, 2011 Studienkennzahl lt. Studienblatt: A 092 332 Dissertationsgebiet lt. Studienblatt: Deutsche Philologie Betreuer: Univ. Prof. Mag. Dr. Wynfrid Kriegleder Inhaltsverzeichnis Seite 1 Einleitung ………………………………………………………... 3 2 Einführung ………………………………………………………. 15 2.1 . Der innere Konflikt – Erläuterung – theoretisch psychologische Ansichten …………………………………. 15 2.2 . Krisen im Leben Hermann Hesses und ihr Niederschlag im Werk ………………………………………………………... 35 3 Analyse ausgewählter Erzähltexte der Zwischenkriegzeit ……… 51 3.1 Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclair Jugend…………. 55 3.1.1 Hintergrundinformation zum Werk ………………. 55 3.1.2 Die Erzählweise der Geschichte ………………….. 58 3.1.3 Darstellungsmethoden von inneren Konflikten …... 65 3.1.3.1 Die zwei Welten ………………………… 65 3.1.3.2 Träume …………………………………... 70 3.1.3.3 Reflexionen ……………………………… 77 3.1.3.4 Biblisch-mythische Intertextualität ……... 81 3.2 Kinderseele …………………………………………………. 86 3.2.1 Hintergrundinformation zum Werk ………………. 86 3.2.2 Die Erzählweise und Struktur …………………….. 89 3.2.3 Darstellung des inneren Konflikts ………………... 93 3.2.3.1 Die zwei Welten ………………………... 94 3.2.3.2 Doppelgängerkampf als Klimax ………... 96 3.2.3.3 Explizite Aussage des Erzählers ………... 100 3.2.3.4 Monologe ……………………………….. 102 3.3 Klein und Wagner …………………………………………... 105 3.3.1 Hintergrundinformation zur Erzählung …………... 105 3.3.2 Die Erzählweise der Geschichte ………………….. 108 3.3.3 Darstellungsweise des inneren Konflikts …………. 111 3.3.3.1 Mörder als Doppelgänger ………………. 112 3.3.3.2 Polarität …………………………………. -
Hermann Hesse “Beyond Pictures and Stories”
Hermann Hesse “Beyond pictures and stories” introduction and coordination by Pier Carlo Della Ferrera essays by Alessandro Melazzini, Giuseppe Curonici and Regina Bucher “Beyond pictures and stories” The novel of the life of Hermann Hesse I was born in the early hours of the evening At fifteen years of age, when at school I had on a warm day in July, and it is the warmth got nowhere, I started to tutor myself on of that hour that I have unconsciously loved my own, conscientiously and with determi- and sought all my life. nation. To my great pleasure, as luck would I am the son of God-fearing parents whom I have it, in my father’s house there hap- loved dearly and would have loved even pened to be a huge library that had belonged more had they not taught me the fourth to my grandfather: an enormous room full commandment at a very early age.1 of old books, which among other things contained all the German literature and Hermann Hesse was born in Calw, a little philosophy of the eighteenth century. town in Wuerttemberg not far from Stuttgart, on the 2nd of July 1877, the second-born of After his first unsuccessful attempt at work- Johannes and Marie Gundert. His father, a ing as a sales assistant in a bookshop in Russian citizen of Baltic origin, who had pre- Esslingen, in June 1894 Hesse embarked viously served in a Pietist mission, worked for upon a difficult apprenticeship in a church a publishing house which produced religious tower clock factory.