© HHP May 15, 1997
Copyright © 1978 by Ralph
Freedman
New York and Toronto: Pantheon Books, Random House, 1978 Hardcover 433pp.
PT2617.E85Z6955 -
ISBN 0-394-41981-2
New: now
as paperback
(with notes and index)
Published in New York by Fromm International Publishing Corporation
1997
Copyright © 1978 by Ralph Freedman
Cover design: Neil Stuart
ISBN 0-88064-172-X
$ 15.95 USA
$20.95 CAN
"In the 1960s and 1970s, Hermann Hesse found more raders in the United States than any other German writer of this century. His novels Steppenwolf, Demian, and Siddhartha sold in the millions, capturing and shaping the counter-culture's infatuation with the East and mysticism, and youth's absorption in the passion of adolescent crisis. This definitive biography is a fascinating account of an artist's life devoted to an impassioned quest for meaning in a fragmented world - a life even more notable for the crises of our age than the fiction he wrote. Ralph Freedman reveals how Hesse - the first major writer to be psychoanalyzed - embarked on a near-mythic odyssey into the turmoil of his inner life as he sought the contradictions in the role of the modern artist." (blurb)
Epilogue: Pilgrim of Crisis
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