Summary
Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann: Correspondence
However different their origins, there were unusual parallels between these two writers. Both of them - a sign of rebellion against the conventional bourgeois heritage - turned their backs on school and started on the path of self-education, through which they acquired very wide and varied knowledge of an astonishing volume and comprehensiveness. At the beginning of their literary work, both of them preferred to take modest jobs for a short time - Thomas Mann worked in an insurance company, and Hermann Hesse in an antiquarian - just so that they could fully devote themselves to what was most important to them - writing.
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