Stories of Five Decades.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1972. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine, unclipped dust jacket. This collection of twenty-three stories (twenty of which are vailable in English for the first time) spans Hesse's writing from 1899-1948 and traces his literary efforts through a variety of literary modes. the reader can trace Hesse's development from the aestheticism of his youth through the realism and surrealism of the next decades to the classicism of his old age. And the reader who knows Hesse mainly through his major novels of the twenties and thirties will be surprised to encounter him in a variety of new incarnations. Yet the greatest surprise is to see how faithful he remains to his essential self from first to last. Even as he tests and discards literary modes, he consistently rejects external "reality" for the sake of an inner world created by imagination. Item #28808
ISBN: 0374270503
Price: $125.00