Hermann Hesse was a German novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, who characterized himself by dedicating his writing to the search for self-realization and spirituality.
But far from any New Age spiritualist farce, Hesse explores the rebellion of the individual against society. A reading that attracts adolescents and adults to reflect on what is important in life.
Steppe wolf
Classified as a training novel, it is one of Hesse’s top novels. It recounts through the main character, Harry Haller, the crisis that he suffered during that time. A whole novel of self-analysis that ends up also becoming the analysis of a generation and an era.
On the one hand, this story tells of the journey made by contemporary man towards a world of anguish and terror to which he finds himself doomed. On the other hand, through different narrative voices and scenarios, Hermann Hesse offers the portrait of an individual who wants to live outside social conventions. It is probably the work that is most closely related to the author’s name and for which he is best known.
Demian
A teenager befriends a fascinating character, who protects and guides him. The book portrays the story of Emil Sinclair’s youth, it is a novel that relates childhood to maturity.
In this Emil Sinclair is a boy who has lived all his life in what he calls the Scheinwelt (dream world or world of light), but a lie leads him to broaden his visions of the world and meet an enigmatic character named Max. Demian that will take you along the paths of self-reasoning, destroying materialistic paradigms that previously surrounded you.
Siddhartha
The novel, set in traditional India, recounts the life of Siddhartha, a man for whom the path of truth passes through renunciation and tries to understand the universe as a unity that underlies everything that exists. In the pages of it, the author offers all the spiritual options of man.
It is a work in which Hesse seeks to bring the most positive aspects of Eastern philosophies to Western culture.
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