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Eine Stunde hinter Mitternacht

Author
Hermann Hesse
Language
German
Length
60 pages
ISBN
9781787362680
Published
16 March 2021
Imprint
Urban Romantics
  • Hermann Hesse
  • Siddhartha
  • spirituality
  • empowerment
  • spiritual growth
  • meaning of life
  • Buddha
  • Buddhism
  • Hindu
  • coming of age

Description

A long, curved, gentle wave lifted my boat with the rounded bow onto the rock. A shipwrecked dreamer left the rowing bench and stretched his arms towards the mute land. My purple cloak was crumbling and was wrinkled softly and humbly from the hips down. My arms and neck had grown thin from rowing and fasting, and my hair had grown long and curled in abundance at the nape of the neck. My reflection lay spread out in the dark green, calm waters of the bay, and I saw that on the long journey everything about me had changed, browner, slimmer and more flexible.

Author

Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) was a German-Swiss poet and novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. His books explore the inward journey — the search for authenticity, spiritual balance, and self-knowledge beyond social convention. Siddhartha, Demian, and Steppenwolf made him a guiding voice for generations of readers across Europe and America. Hesse writes with lyrical simplicity about the hardest question: how to become oneself.