Volume 26, Number 3 · March 8, 1979
Neighing in the Wind
By Christopher Middleton
Hermann Hesse: Biography and Bibliography
by Joseph Mileck
University of California Press, 2 vols. 1,402 pp., $60.00
Hermann Hesse: Pilgrim of Crisis, A Biography
by Ralph Freedman
Pantheon, 432 pp., $15.00
Hermann Hesse became quite well known in Germany as early as 1904, when his short novel Peter Camenzind was published. Since 1945 his renown has spread across the world, yet in spite of his 1946 Nobel Prize his work is somehow not admitted into the canon of 'great' twentieth-century German authors. Germans, at least, would be amused nowadays, or mildly astonished, if a foreigner were to mention him along with Thomas Mann, Hofmannsthal, Rilke, Kafka, or Brecht.
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