by Hermann Hesse · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780374511098
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«My Belief: Essays on Life and Art» is Hermann Hesse's collection of essays, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in paperback, with 393 pages.
The book brings together essays by Hermann Hesse written over more than half a century: literary and social criticism, meditations on morality, nature, art and his search for identity, with studies on Dostoevsky, Jean Paul and Hölderlin. Hesse defends the idea of a single humanity against dichotomies such as past and present or science and poetry.
Original title: «Mein Glaube». 1974 edition with texts in English and German; introduction by Theodore Ziolkowski, translation by Denver Lindley and two essays translated by Ralph Manheim.
For readers interested in Hermann Hesse, philosophy and twentieth-century literary and social criticism.
Hermann Karl Hesse was a German-Swiss poet and novelist, and winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. His interest in Eastern religious, spiritual, and philosophical traditions, combined with his involvement with Jungian analysis, helped shape his literary work. His best-known novels include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, Narcissus and Goldmund, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge, and spirituality.
