Talk:Hermann Hesse

Template:FAOL The passage about the (supposed) view of Hesse and Sidharta in Asian cultures seems speculative and out of place in an encyclopedia article. I'll remove it unless anyone cares to defend it. --Liss 13:47, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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Developed a sterile conservatism in later life (In Glasperlenspiel, all music after Johann Sebastian Bach is denounced as superficial and bad, Ludwig van Beethoven being an extreme example of bad taste, his best supposedly the 24 variations over a theme by Diabelli, etc., etc.

I tried to fix that sentence, and removed some of the content ("his best supposedly the 24 variations over a theme by Diabelli"), since I wasn't sure what it was referring to. Skagedal 16:47, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

The 'sterile' adjective should be deleted, or at least *much* better explained. The view labeled as conservative is by a character, not necessarily it is Hesse's; and if so, it can be defended.

--- This is simply unsourced. I have a copy of Glasperlenspiel in my hand, and I see no reference to Hesse's supposed comment on Beethoven/Bach. That seems to be a gross simplification of his views on music, and an inaccurate one at that. If I don't see any comments arguing why it shouldn't be removed, I'm going to go ahead and cut that one out. 25 Sep 2005 --[User:Anon.]

-- LeandroGFCDutra 22:18, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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there is a collection of hesse's poetry entitled 'crisis'. the version i once owned had both the original german and the english translations. since i don't know the publication date, i have not amended the article. AoF

Yes, something on his poetry (and Strauss's "Four Last Songs"?) would be great. —JerryFriedman 00:02, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I've added some collections (poetry, short stories and essays) and some of the alternate English titles. I also removed the reference to Steppenwolf (band) – it's not really relevant here as it is mentioned on the Steppenwolf page. --Bruce1ee (Talk) 07:18, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Bibliographic citation added

As suggested by AoF, Crisis: Pages from a Diary has been added to the Hesse bibliography. The original German title is Krisis: Ein Stück Tagebuch. The bibliographic information comes from the reference work Contemporary Authors and the 1975 English language edition published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. There are a number of Hesse titles that are unique English language collections such as Wandering and Hours in the Garden. May these also be added? Donw714 19:49, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

Yes, add them – but perhaps the bibliography now needs to be split up into (say) Novels and Collections. --Bruce1ee (Talk) 06:13, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Splitting up the bibliography into sections sounds like a good idea. Perhaps after a few additional citations, how it might be best split up may become apparent. Thanks. Donw714 18:13, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

External link added

An external link to the Hermann Hesse page has been added. This page is an authoritative source, in English and German, with current and archived articles on Hesse, as well as monthly features of the author's work. Donw714 18:13, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Bibliographic item added

A new item has been added to the bibliography, Wandering (Wanderung: Aufzeichnungen) from 1920. The citation was taken from the item itself, which I have in hand. Don 18:04, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Hi, I would like to add an external link to the World of Biography entry

• Hermann Hesse Biography probably the most famous portal of biography to this article. Does anybody have any objections?