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Title: If the War Goes on: Reflections on War and Politics by Hermann Hesse ISBN: 0-374-50925-5 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: June, 1971 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $1.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Hesse's "The European" - key 20th century essay
Comment: I don't know the "Amazon.com Customer" who wrote the 1998 review of Hesse's small book of essays _If the War Goes On_. What I do know is more than 30 YEARS after reading the same essay, "THE EUROPEAN", I'm obliged to continue recommending it to people everywhere. Hesse was European and German yet a pacifist. He also was a person with a healthy self-criticism for the population to which he belonged. In pre-Hitlerian Europe (specifically Germany) he must have suffered for his ideas and feelings far from the Teutonic/Euro ordinary. Yet he had enough courage to claim and share what he perceived. "The European" is a lesson for our times. Get this book. Share this essay.
Rating: 5
Summary: Superbly translated essays and letters
Comment: This volume covers the period from September 1914 to 1948, and consists of essays and other writings on war and Hesse's reactions to it. I was surprised how what he said resonated with me--filled with opposition to German militarism and detestion of the Nazi horror. I was again reminded of Hesse's greatness, and I don't see how the language of the translation could be better. I was greatly moved by the proof that there were good Germans who cringed in pain as they watched the slide to Hitlerian madness. There are 25 separate pieces and I am glad I own this book, so I can refer to them again and again.
Rating: 5
Summary: For Hesse Fans and Pacifists Too
Comment: What is it like to be a famous German novelist living in Switzerland during World War II? Innumerable Germans at their wits' end would write Hermann Hesse hoping that somehow he could help them. In this collection of short pieces, Hesse shows that the best way he knew to achieve peace was to use his pen.
It is worth getting your hands on this book just in order to read "The European," which reminds us that philosophy must above all be practical.
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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: Stories of Five Decades by Hermann Hesse ISBN: 0374270503 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: July, 1973 |
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Title: Klingsors Last Summer by Hermann Hesse ISBN: 0374509298 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux |
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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: Gertrude : A Novel by Herman Hesse, Hilda Rosner ISBN: 0374508127 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1969 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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