Hesse's Letters

☆ Everyone loves Hesse! A close friend of youth worldwide, a Nobel Prize winner forever belonging to the younger generation☆ "Don't follow the crowd. The most important thing for us in this world is to be ourselves!" Listen to Hesse and become yourself☆ 278 letters, translated in Chinese, offer a panoramic view of the life and spiritual transformation of this great master☆ From three marriages, overcoming creative crises, helping friends even in poverty, and losing his homeland...all the details about Hesse are here☆ Understand Hesse's connection with China: his fascination with Zen Buddhism, his love for Chinese culture, and his admiration for Fu Cong's musical talent. The translator selected representative letters from Hesse's 70-year correspondence from 1892 to 1962, mainly including Hesse's personal growth and development, changes in his family and thoughts, his pursuit, struggle, and creative process, daily letters with his parents, wife, children, and sisters, his participation in social public activities, his interactions with contemporaries such as Zweig, Romain Rolland, Thomas Mann, and his observations and insights on the individual and the collective, writing, literature, current affairs, war, and society. These letters bear witness to Hesse's life and experiences from youth to old age, and also present the trajectory of more than half a century of historical alternation and cultural changes.
In these letters, Hesse sometimes discusses his views on literary works, sometimes expresses his opinions on social issues, and sometimes uses prose to describe natural scenery and express his insights on life. These letters restore Hesse to his own era and present a three-dimensional spiritual world that intertwined with his contemporaries.
Hesse's works are inspiring, powerful, insightful, and exemplify lofty humanitarian ideals and noble style.
— Nobel Prize in Literature citation: Hesse represents an ancient, genuine, pure, and spiritual Germany. His writings are full of humanitarian spirit and love for humanity.
—Thomas Mann, German writer Decades before my generation, Hermann Hesse already felt the inner turmoil in us, the inherent need of youth to find our own way - each of us must claim what is rightfully our own: our own life.
——Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho Hesse is a writer who always belongs to the younger generation... When reading Hesse's works, people often feel as if they are writing about ourselves, as if we wrote all this ourselves.
—Volker Michels, editor and researcher of Hesse's works

2023-04-01

上海人民出版社

Century Wenjing

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