A single volume of the most beautiful texts by Herman Hesse including intimate memories of his final years. Hesse collected life sketches, poems, aphorisms and short essays dedicated to the ultimate challenge of a writer who had already accomplished a celebrated body of work — that of accepting his final years and the approach of death with grace.
"A writer of genius." -The Times
"A totem for the jeunesse enragée of two continents." - Bernard Levin, Sunday Times
"One of the past century’s most important writers." - The New York Times Book Review
"These days we often think of the 1920s as one of the highpoints of the novel, with practitioners such as Hermann Hesse." - John Crace, Guardian
A single volume of the most beautiful texts by Herman Hesse including intimate memories of his final years. Hesse collected life sketches, poems, aphorisms and short essays dedicated to the ultimate challenge of a writer who had already accomplished a celebrated body of work — that of accepting his final years and the approach of death with grace.
Praise
"A writer of genius." -The Times
"A totem for the jeunesse enragée of two continents." - Bernard Levin, Sunday Times
"One of the past century’s most important writers." - The New York Times Book Review
"These days we often think of the 1920s as one of the highpoints of the novel, with practitioners such as Hermann Hesse." - John Crace, Guardian
