This year, it has been 50 years since one of the greatest writers in the german language has died, Herman Hesse.
Due to this reminder, I again read one of his books and finished it a few days ago. Unterm Rad / Beneath the Weel.
I hope someone here might have read some of his work, and if you dont, you will still defenatly know it - because the band "steppenwolf" Whos name was taken from his novel "Der Steppenwolf".
Although he his undoubtably one of the greatest writers of that nation, he is not that popular and widespread within Germany as are other writers such as Thomas Mann, Bertold Brecht and Heinrich Böll - and more people read him in foreign countries than in Germany.
His works are mainly centered arround the theme of self determination.
Individuals who struggle with their existance or the situations in which they find themselves and their resulting feelings, needs, attempts to give their life meaning and their expressions.
Since it is always said here, that he is more positivly received and better known abroard, I would like to knwo if anyone else here has read some of his work and maybe has a opinion.
Due to this reminder, I again read one of his books and finished it a few days ago. Unterm Rad / Beneath the Weel.
I hope someone here might have read some of his work, and if you dont, you will still defenatly know it - because the band "steppenwolf" Whos name was taken from his novel "Der Steppenwolf".
Although he his undoubtably one of the greatest writers of that nation, he is not that popular and widespread within Germany as are other writers such as Thomas Mann, Bertold Brecht and Heinrich Böll - and more people read him in foreign countries than in Germany.
His works are mainly centered arround the theme of self determination.
Individuals who struggle with their existance or the situations in which they find themselves and their resulting feelings, needs, attempts to give their life meaning and their expressions.
Since it is always said here, that he is more positivly received and better known abroard, I would like to knwo if anyone else here has read some of his work and maybe has a opinion.
