Summary
Hermann Hesse: Gertrude
When I look at my life from the outside like this, it doesn't seem so happy. But, despite all the delusions, I can even less consider him unhappy. After all, it is quite crazy to ask yourself what is happiness and what is unhappiness, because it seems to me that I would rather give the most unlucky days of my life than all the bright ones... In 1946, Hesse received the world's highest award. honor: Nobel Prize for Literature. In the mid-60s, he became one of the most read and translated European writers in the last 100 years. In Hesse's criticism of contemporary civilization and civil society, in his protest against all forms of totalitarianism, in his tireless advocacy for peace in the world, in the rejection of all coercion over spiritual freedom, a simple and creative life - the modern reader finds confirmation of his ideal and aspiration
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