Hermann Hesse

Nominada por los estadounidenses como una de las 100 mejores novelas en la serie de PBS The Great American Read. Esta novela, ambientada en la India tradicional, relata la vida de Siddhartha, un hombre para quien el camino de la verdad pasa por la renuncia y la comprensi n de la unidad que subyace en todo lo existente. En sus p ginas, el autor ofrece todas las opciones espirituales del hombre. Hermann Hesse buce en el alma de Oriente a fin de aportar sus aspectos positivos a nuestra sociedad. Siddhartha es la obra m s representativa de este proceso y ha ejercido una gran influencia en la cultura occidental del siglo xx. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read The classic novel of a quest for knowledge that has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers--a perennial favorite for graduation gifts. Though set in a place and time far removed from the Germany of 1922, the year of the book's debut, the novel is infused with the sensibilities of Hermann Hesse's time, synthesizing disparate philosophies-Eastern religions, Jungian archetypes, Western individualism-into a unique vision of life as expressed through one man's search for meaning. It is the story of the quest of Siddhartha, a wealthy Indian Brahmin who casts off a life of privilege and comfort to seek spiritual fulfillment and wisdom. On his journey, Siddhartha encounters wandering ascetics, Buddhist monks, and successful merchants, as well as a courtesan named Kamala and a simple ferryman who has attained enlightenment. Traveling among these people and experiencing life's vital passages-love, work, friendship, and fatherhood-Siddhartha discovers that true knowledge is guided from within.

The Prodigy, originally dating from 1905, is Hermann Hesse's bitter indictment of conventional education. It is the story of Hans Giebenrath, the brilliant young son of provincial bourgeois in southern Germany who becomes the first boy from his town to pass into a prestigious Protestant theological college. His spirit, however, is systematically broken by his parents and teachers; over-anxious about his success, they forget to consider his health and happiness. Subsiding into a fatal apathy, he is taken home for medical reasons. Here he falls in love, becomes an engineer's apprentice, learns to drink alcohol and eventually dies by drowning.

El Lobo estepario, obra c lebre de Hermann Hesse, narra la historia de Harry Haller, un intelectual con gustos refinados, de cincuenta a os, que se siente extra o e inc modo dentro de la sociedad en la que le toc vivir, lo cual manifiesta con una doble personalidad: una humana y otra lobuna. Harry conoce a Armanda, una mujer joven y bella, que le ense a a disfrutar de los placeres de la vida y, adem s, le presenta a su amiga Mar a, una chica hermosa y sensual, con qui n l descubre el placer de la sexualidad. Despu s conoce a Pablo, un saxofonista de una banda de jazz, quien lo introduce por el mundo de las drogas.

One of Herman Hesse's earliest novels, In the Old Sun (In der Alten Sonne) was completed in 1908. The book, out of print in English for a hundred years, was originally published before the novels that were to make Hesse famous in the decades after World War II. The poorhouse derelicts of Gerbersau (Hesse's boyhood town of Cawl) appear to have walked out of the fictional world of Gottfried Keller, whose collection of short stories, The People of Seldwyla, was a favorite of Hesse's. The antics of H rlin, the bankrupt manufacturer, and of Heller, a malicious and lazy former rope maker, are both humorous and poignant. Coyote Canyon Press is proud to bring back into print this "lost novel" by Hermann Hesse.

A powerful new translation of Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse's masterpiece of youthful rebellion--with a foreword and cover art by James Franco A Penguin Classic A young man awakens to selfhood and to a world of possibilities beyond the conventions of his upbringing in Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse's beloved novel Demian. Emil Sinclair is a quiet boy drawn into a forbidden yet seductive realm of petty crime and defiance. His guide is his precocious, mysterious classmate Max Demian, who provokes in Emil a search for self-discovery and spiritual fulfillment. A brilliant psychological portrait, Demian is given new life in this translation, which together with James Franco's personal and inspiring foreword will bring a new generation to Hesse's widely influential coming-of-age novel. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

SIDDHARTHA: EINE INDISCHE DICHTUNG von Hermann Hesse ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Windham Press is committed to bringing the lost cultural heritage of ages past into the 21st century through high-quality reproductions of original, classic printed works at affordable prices. This book has been carefully crafted to utilize the original images of antique books rather than error-prone OCR text. This also preserves the work of the original typesetters of these classics, unknown craftsmen who laid out the text, often by hand, of each and every page you will read. Their subtle art involving judgment and interaction with the text is in many ways superior and more human than the mechanical methods utilized today, and gave each book a unique, hand-crafted feel in its text that connected the reader organically to the art of bindery and book-making. We think these benefits are worth the occasional imperfection resulting from the age of these books at the time of scanning, and their vintage feel provides a connection to the past that goes beyond the mere words of the text.

Die Faszination für die Kultur, Literatur und Philosophie Chinas hat Hermann Hesse zeitlebens begleitet. So durchziehen chinesische Motive, Einflüsse des Taoismus, des Konfuzianismus und des chinesischen Zen sein komplettes Werk, von Gedichten über Märchen und Erzählungen, Betrachtungen und Lektüreempfehlungen bis hinein in seinen großen Roman Das Glasperlenspiel. Dieses Lesebuch versammelt die wichtigsten und schönsten Märchen, Erzählungen und Betrachtungen von Hermann Hesse mit chinesischen Motiven sowie seine essayistischen und literaturkritischen Publikationen und zeigt ihn als großen Kenner der chinesischen Kultur, Literatur und Philosophie. ?Wir müssen China, oder das, was es uns bedeutet, in uns selbst finden.? Hermann Hesse

Genudgivelse i paperback. Om en from brahmanersøn, der i sin søgen efter sandheden forkaster sine fædres tro. Hans vej går gennem askese, møde med Buddha, kærlighedsoplevelser og et verdsligt liv, før han falder til ro.