Beneath the wheel /
Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962.,
Beneath the wheel / [print] Hermann Hesse ; translated by Michael Roloff. - first Picador edition. - New York : Picador, (c)2003. - 187 pages ; 21 cm.
"Herman Hesse's spiritual biography, 'Beneath the Wheel,' is a touchstone in the Nobel Prize-winning author's lifelong examination of the conflict between self-affirmation and self-destruction. Based on his own experience, his second novel attacks an educational system that fosters intelledt and ambition at the expense of emotion, soul and instinct. 'Beneath the Wheel' tells with compassion and tenderness a sstory that is true for our own age, with all the poetic and lyrical qualities that have made Hesse an outstanding literary figure of the twentieth century. It is the key to all his later works." *** "A gifted German boy hounded by years of pressure and guilt from his schoolmasters and pastor receives a long-overdue taste of freedom, loses interest in his studies, and finds his life spiraling out of control, faced with an 'average' future."
9780312422301
2003041621
Leisure Reading
Fiction
PT2617.R755.B464 2003 PT2617
Beneath the wheel / [print] Hermann Hesse ; translated by Michael Roloff. - first Picador edition. - New York : Picador, (c)2003. - 187 pages ; 21 cm.
"Herman Hesse's spiritual biography, 'Beneath the Wheel,' is a touchstone in the Nobel Prize-winning author's lifelong examination of the conflict between self-affirmation and self-destruction. Based on his own experience, his second novel attacks an educational system that fosters intelledt and ambition at the expense of emotion, soul and instinct. 'Beneath the Wheel' tells with compassion and tenderness a sstory that is true for our own age, with all the poetic and lyrical qualities that have made Hesse an outstanding literary figure of the twentieth century. It is the key to all his later works." *** "A gifted German boy hounded by years of pressure and guilt from his schoolmasters and pastor receives a long-overdue taste of freedom, loses interest in his studies, and finds his life spiraling out of control, faced with an 'average' future."
9780312422301
2003041621
Leisure Reading
Fiction
PT2617.R755.B464 2003 PT2617