The topics are the same (the distinction between good and evil, the refusal of bourgeois society and the homesickness of childhood), but addressed with a new awareness.

Hermann HesseĪs mentioned, his works had a revolution after studying psychoanalysis, in fact Demian is a clear example of adherence to it. In fact, Hesse’s works before this period can be defined “neo-romantic”, influenced by the literary fashions of the time ( Peter Camenzind ) and mostly critical to a school educational system which was extremely repressive, surrounded by the noisy bourgeois echo ( Beneath T he Wheel ). The problem with the family will lead him into a state of profound depression and then to the consultation of a psychoanalyst, but above all to study the matter. Three phenomena covers a f undamental importance in Hesse’s works: the difficulties related to the family sphere (the difficult relationship with the wife having mental problems, the death of the father and the illness of one of the three childrens), the impatience for the sedentary life that will lead him to undertake the journey to Orient, and the outbreak of the First World War. He moves to Basel, where he marries a woman with whom he will have three children.

He received a rigid education from the institute, and after the studies, he started a job as a clockmaker, but in the meantime he discovers his grandfather’s t vast library : he reads Goethe, Dostoevsky, Schiller and Novalis. When he was fifteen, he suffered from depression and, during the period when he attended the seminary, he even attempted to commit suicide: this episode marked his existence forever. īiographically speaking, it is important to say that Hesse received form his parents a strict education, adverse to any artistic ambition. Urn:oclc:854986172 Republisher_date 20130325014206 Republisher_operator Scandate 20130319074550 Scanner the first sentence in Steppenwolf, we can realize that Hermann Hesse didn’t have a spiritual and peaceful life in those days.

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