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Hermann Hesse
(1877 - 1962)

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German poet and novelist, who has explored in his work the duality of spirit and nature and individual's spiritual search outside restrictions of the society. Hesse was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. Several of Hesse's novels depict the protagonist's journey into the inner self. A s .. .. more >>

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"To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. It is a very serious task, young man, and possibly a tragic one."
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), German novelist, poet. Father Jacobus, in The Glass Bead Game, ch. 4 (1943, trans. 1960).

"You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present."
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), German novelist, poet. Father Jacobus, in The Glass Bead Game, ch. 4 (1943, trans. 1960).

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Hermann Hesse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Biography, with links to essays on some of his works.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Hesse

Hermann Hesse
Biographical profile of the German poet and novelist.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hhesse.htm

Hermann Hesse - Autobiography
Brief statement by Hermann Hesse from his Nobel Lectures.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1946/hesse-autobio.html

Literature 1946
Hermann Hesse. Hermann Hesse. Switzerland. b. 1877 (in Calw, Wuerttemberg, Germany) d. 1962. Titles, data and places given above refer to the time of the ...
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1946/

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