TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hesse,Hermann
AU  - Roloff,Michael
TI  - Beneath the wheel
SN  - 9780312422301
AV  - PT2617.R755.B464 2003 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Picador
KW  - Leisure Reading
KW  - Fiction
N1  - 2
N2  - "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."
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol052/2003041621.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol031/2003041621.html
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