Strange News from Another Star by Hermann Hesse

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Young Germans desiring a different and more 'natural' way of life at the time of great economic and technological progress in the country, received enthusiastically Peter Camenzind, first great novel of Hesse. In his time, Hesse was a popular and influential author in the German-speaking world worldwide fame only came later. Other best-known works of this poet, novelist, and painter include The Glass Bead Game, which, also known as Magister Ludi, explore a search of an individual for spirituality outside society. Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946. The stories are 'Augustus', 'The Poet', 'Flute Dream', 'Strange News from Another Star', 'The Hard Passage', 'A Dream Sequence', 'Faldum' &-perhaps the masterpiece of the collection-'Iris'. Their subject is the distilling of wisdom. They are concerned with dream worlds, the subconscious, magical thinking & the numinous experience of the soul.

Unlike his earlier work, from Peter Carmenzind thru Knulp, the stories in Strange News from Another Star don't allow for an essentially realistic interpretaion. The new note so clear in Demian was 1st sounded, Hesse believed, in some of these tales written during 1913-18, the period that brought him into conflict with supporters of the war, with his country & its government, with conventional intellectual life, with every form of orthodoxy both in the world & in himself. This 1st edition in English has followed the arrangement Hesse made for the final collected edition of his works, where he added an 8th story, 'Flute Dream'. In 1919, the same year Demian was published, seven of these stories appeared as a book entitled Märchen (lit.

Strange News from Another Star by Hermann Hesse