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Title: Stories of Five Decades by Hermann Hesse, Ralph Manheim, Denver Lindley ISBN: 0-224-01010-7 Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group) Pub. Date: 05 September, 1974 Format: Hardcover |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Astonishing Collection
Comment: This selection of 23 stories (20 available in English for the first time) offers a spectrum of Hesse's writing from 1899 to 1948 that could be matched only by an edition of his poetry, since in no other form -- novel, essay, autobiographical reflection -- did he span so many years. Here, within the covers of a single volume, the reader can trace Hesse's development from the aestheticism of his youth through the realism and surrealism of the next decades to the classicism of his old age. And the reader who knows Hesse mainly through his major novels of the twenties and thirties will be surprised to encounter him in a variety of new incarnations. Yet the greatest surprise is to see how faithful he remained to his essential self from first to last. Even as he tests and discards literary modes, he consistently rejects external "reality" for the sake of an inner world created by imagination.
This obsession with expressing his own consciousness is paralleled by criticism of the world he is fleeing from. In the earliest stories, such critiques amount to an attempt to epater le bourgeois. Later, in stories like "The Homecoming," the malice and corruption of society are forcefully unmasked. In the parable "Harry, the Steppenwolf" (1928), Hesse even ridicules the attitude we recognize today as "radical chic."
But all his stories, as Hesse himself realized, are concerned primarily with his own secret dreams, his own bitter anguish. Stories of Five Decades, arranged in chronological order, is a rewarding display of the full range of this storytelling as it blossomed over a lifetime.
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Title: Poems by Hermann Hesse, James Wright ISBN: 0374526419 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: December, 1970 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Strange News from Another Star and Other Tales by Hermann Hesse ISBN: 0374510180 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: May, 1972 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: If the War Goes on: Reflections on War and Politics by Hermann Hesse ISBN: 0374509255 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: June, 1971 List Price(USD): $1.95 |
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Title: The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse by Hermann Hesse ISBN: 0553377760 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Klingsors Last Summer by Hermann Hesse ISBN: 0374509298 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux |
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