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Schön ist die Jugend: Zwei Erzählungen

Author
Hermann Hesse
Language
German
Length
68 pages
ISBN
9781787362604
Published
13 March 2021
Imprint
Urban Romantics
  • Hermann Hesse
  • Siddhartha
  • spirituality
  • empowerment
  • spiritual growth
  • meaning of life
  • Buddha
  • Buddhism
  • Hindu
  • coming of age

Description

Schön ist die Jugend is about a young man who, after a long search for a place in society, has “become something decent” and returns to his parents' house. The following summer months are described before the protagonist takes up a job abroad. In a very detailed and atmospheric language, Hesse describes the memory of childhood and the security in an intact family, which one can bring out at any time with a little luck and a sunny disposition, as Anna Amberg, the unrivaled love of this story, expresses to make times of need and pain a little more bearable.

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.