"The Glass Bead Game" is a novel by the German writer Hermann Hesse. Hesse began writing the novel in 1931 but did not publish it until almost fifteen years later in 1943. The novel was originally rejected for publication in Germany in that time because of Hesse's anti-fascist political views. It was then published in Switzerland. Hesse went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature only … [Read more...]

"Steppenwolf" is a novel by Hermann Hesse, a German author, which was published in 1927. The author writes about a lonely, dissatisfied intellectual Harry Haller and he described his mental state through a battle between his human and wolf side.The novel wasn’t accepted in the beginning and was even banned in the USA because of detail descriptions of drug usage and obscene … [Read more...]