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2 July 1877–9 August 1962
Also known as Emil Sinclair, H. Hesse, Herman Hesse, Hermann Weller
Hermann Karl Hesse -pseudonym: Emil Sinclair- (* 2. Juli 1877 in Calw; † 9. August 1962 in Montagnola, Schweiz), war ein deutsch-schweizerischer Schriftsteller, Dichter und Maler. Bekanntheit erlangte er mit Prosawerken wie Siddhartha, Demian, Der Steppenwolf sowie auch Narziß und Goldmund und mit seinen Gedichten (z. B. Stufen). 1946 wurde ihm der Nobelpreis für Literatur und 1954 der Orden Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste verliehen.
Hermann Karl Hesse (2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Readers in conversation
Public notes, reviews, lists, and conversations around Hermann Hesse.
A reader-curated list
These are books that capture something about the "mathematical experience" without getting into the subject matter. The hope is to give a sense of what "doing mathematics" feels like. My target is somebody who doesn't really get why mathematicians do what the…
My second Hesse, after Siddhartha, and, in my opinion, the superior of the two. The story told is expansive. It is the rare, prismatic kind of book that seems to account for the entirety of human experience, and which, rarer still, manages to do so in a manne…