In a sunlit courtyard in Montagnola, in the southern foothills of the Swiss Alps, German author and curator Regina Bucher is telling me about her lifelong fascination with Hermann Hesse. Regina moved ...

A trove of newly rediscovered works by the Nobel Prize-winning poet, novelist, and painter Hermann Hesse is going under the hammer at a rare books auction at Ketterer Kunst Hamburg on May 18 and 19.

DEMIAN by Hermann Hesse, translated by Roloff and Lebeck. 171 pages. Harper & Row. $4.50. Gerhart Hauptmann, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse: three glum Dutch uncles dominated the tone of German literature ...

"Siddhartha" is the story of the spiritual journey of a young man, who shares his name with the Buddha. Deutsche Welle "Siddhartha" is the story of the spiritual journey of a young man, who shares his ...

A rich, insightful biography shows how Hermann Hesse overcame self-hatred, ‘freed the German spirit’ and became a guru for hippies In the early 1920s, the German novelist and poet Hermann Hesse set ...

“It has to be said, there are no points to be won from liking Hesse nowadays.” This rueful assessment of the novelist Hermann Hesse, quoted in the opening pages of Gunnar Decker’s new biography, ...

"Siddhartha" is the story of the spiritual journey of a young man, who shares his name with the Buddha. The novel by Hermann Hesse is set in 6th-century Kapilavastu (now in Nepal), the birthplace of ...