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Sacramento News & Review - Jan 19, 2012
It's an undertaking that slows as I browse through Kurt Vonnegut and sample a passage from Hermann Hesse. Actually, I've never read the books by Hesse, but they remind me that dusting off books is like stirring up the ashes of an old romance.

From Patti Smith, Images Romantic and Morbid

New York Times - Jan 21, 2012
... NJ There are photographs of writers' beds — those of Virginia Woolf, Jim Carroll, John Keats, Victor Hugo — and close-up images of artists' tools and possessions: Hermann Hesse's typewriter; a Jean Genet manuscript; Rudolf Nureyev's slippers; ...

Reading With Strangers: Ways to Study Literature Collaboratively

New York Times (blog) - Jan 19, 2012
You might read Chaim Potok's “The Chosen,” Hermann Hesse's “Siddhartha” or the writings of Thomas Merton. Race and Ethnicity: Titles that might be read by groups with different ethnic or racial backgrounds include Sandra Cisneros's “The House on Mango ...

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Siddhartha

by: Hermann Hesse
In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river where he hears a unique sound. This sound signals the true beginning of his life -- the beginning of suffering, rejection, peace, and, finally, wisdom.
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Siddhartha

by: Hermann Hesse
With parallels to the enlightenment of the Buddha, Hesse's Siddhartha is the story of a young Brahmin's quest for the ultimate reality. Steeped in the tenets of both psychoanalysis and Eastern mysticism, Siddhartha presents an original view of man and culture, and the arduous process of self-discovery that leads to reconciliation, harmony, and peace.

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The Glass Bead Game: A Novel

by: Hermann Hesse
The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature

Set in the 23rd century, The Glass Bead Game is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and flourish. Since childhood, Knecht has been consumed with mastering the Glass Bead Game, which requires a synthesis of aesthetics and scientific arts, such as mathematics, music, logic, and philosophy, which he achieves in adulthood, becoming a Magister Ludi (Master of the Game).
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The Seasons of the Soul: The Poetic Guidance and Spiritual Wisdom of Herman Hesse

by: Hermann Hesse
Vowing at an early age “to be a poet or nothing at all,” Hermann Hesse rebelled against formal education, focusing on a rigorous program of independent study that included literature, philosophy, art, and history. One result of these efforts was a series of novels that became counterculture bibles that remain widely influential today. Another was a body of evocative spiritual poetry. Published for the first time in English, these vivid, probing short works reflect deeply on the challenges of life and provide a spiritual solace that transcends specific denominational hymns, prayers, and rituals.
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