The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse

<b>Translated and with an introduction by Jack Zipes</b><br><br>A collection of twenty-two fairy tales by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, most translated into English for the first time, show the influence of German Romanticism, psychoanalysis, and Eastern religion on his development as an author.<br><br><b>Praise for <i>The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse</i></b><br><br>“Sometimes lush and lyrical, sometimes in the simple language of the parable, these tales elaborate Hesse's concerns with mortality, the unity of life and the isolation of the artist. . . . Quirky and evocative, Hesse's fairy tales stand alone, but also amplify the ideas and utopian longings of such counterculture avatars as Siddhartha and Steppenwolf.”<b>—<i>Publishers Weekly<br><br></i></b>“Hesse unerringly creates the feel of a fairy tale. . . . Lay readers will enjoy this as much as literary specialists.”<b>—<i>Library Journal</i></b>