something magical happens with books, one can read over and over again on different occasions, and will always be new books. The topics covered are of such depth that mutate incessantly, becoming timeless. Lyrics of the pages they create new configurations as constellations that remain in our mind, always willing to disintegrate and give way to new ideas.
long time, aI months, not my hands on a book capable of being moved to the core from start to finish. Maybe ask a lot. Perhaps what he was telling the photographer Lisette Model "do not squeeze the trigger until you feel a pain in his stomach" was not always able to apply the act of reading. I mean it's not easy to find books that make you feel this pain in my stomach. But it does Demian.
is impossible not made the eternal questions - who we are, "Where we come from, where do we go? - At some point, if not continuously, throughout the trip we made with Sinclair, the protagonist of this novel. And it does not appeal to mystical and philosophical questions far to turn this small resortAnd then discover the wonder, discover that slowly gets control of the situation, that the great force that will drag is a small force of its own, an organ, a rudder ... "
" ... when I find the key and go down to my interior, where, in a dark mirror, lie images of fate, only I have to lean on its dark surface to see full-ya like it, my friend and guide, my own image! " BIOGRAPHY
Hermann Hesse (Calw, Germany July 2, 1877 - Montagnola, Ticino, Switzerland, August 9, 1962) was a German-born Swiss writer.
received the Nobel Prize of literature1946. In his youth
made long journeys to Italy and also India, where his father and grandfather were missionaries. His education was divided between Germany and Switzerland, studied at a college of humanities and a seminar, and for some time was devoted to librarian and free journalism. In 1912 he settled in Switzerland and in 1921 acquired the nationality.
Like many of his characters Hesse took over his life with women problems. His first marriage to Maria Bernoulli, who bore him three children, ended tragically by his wife's mental problems. The second marriage apparently grew from a brief affair with Ruth Wenger ending a few months. Eventually married in 1931 and Nion Dolbin remainedwith him for the rest of his life.
died of a cerebral hemorrhage in his sleep at the age of 85 years. BIBLIOGRAPHY
* 1904 - Peter Camenzind
* 1905 - Beneath the Wheel * 1910 - Gertrude * 1914 - Rosshalde
1919 - Demian
* 1922 - Siddhartha
* 1927 - Steppenwolf
* 1930 - Narciso and Goldmund
* 1932 - Journey to the East
* 1943 - The Glass Bead Game
(Biography and Bibliography taken from Wikipedia.org. Text by Nerea Nara)
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