He is still one of the best-selling German writers throughout the world.
He died of cerebral hemorrhage in his sleep on Augat the age of eighty-five. Hermann Hesse was born into a family of Pietist missionaries and religious publishers in the Black Forest town of Calw, in the German state of Wüttenberg. Hesse's other central works include In Sight of Chaos (1923), a collection of essays, the novel Narcissus and Goldmund (1930) and Poems (1970).Īfter receiving the Nobel Prize Hesse wrote no major works. German poet and novelist, who has explored in his work the duality of spirit and nature and individuals spiritual search outside restrictions of the society. It was not accepted by the Nazis and the work appeared for the first time in Zürich. In 1942 Hesse sent the manuscript to Berlin for publication. In 1931 Hesse married his third wife, Ninon Dolbin, and began in the same year work on his masterpiece Das Glasperlenspiel, which was published in 1943. During the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) Hesse stayed aloof from politics. These difficult years produced Der Steppenwolf(1927). Hesse's second marriage to Ruth Wenger (1924-27) was unhappy. Its English translation in the 1950s became a spiritual guide to the generation of American Beat poets.
In 1922 appeared Siddhartha, a novel of asceticism set in the time of Buddha. Leaving his family in 1919, Hesse moved to Montagnola, in southern Switzerland. It was a Faustian tale of a man torn between his orderly bourgeois existence and a chaotic world of sensuality. Hesse's breakthrough novel was Demian (1919). Hesse spent the years of World War I in Switzerland, attacking the prevailing moods of militarism and nationalism. During these years his wife suffered from growing mental instability and his son was seriously ill. In the novel Rosshalde (1914) Hesse explored the question of whether the artist should marry. In 1912 Hesse and his family took a permanent residence in Switzerland.
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