Volume 14, Number 6 · March 26, 1970
Germanics
By D.J. Enright
Rosshalde
by Hermann Hesse, translated by Ralph Manheim
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 213 pp., $5.50
Children Are Civilians Too
by Heinrich Böll, translated by Leila Vennewitz
McGraw-Hill, 192 pp., $5.95
Bodies and Shadows
by Peter Weiss, translated by E.B. Garside, translated by Rosemarie Waldrop
Delacorte Press, 120 pp., $5.95
Rosshalde is Hesse's fourth novel, published in 1914, and while it doesn't offer the peculiar excitations of Steppenwolf or the metaphysical incitements of Magister Ludi, it is a good example of what I would have thought the slightly faded charm of early Hesse: an essentially gemütlich mixture of idyl and anguish, of talk about life and talk about art, with some talk about the exotic East thrown in.
Review, 2069 words
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