Hesse went to his writing desk and poured the nectar.” Once he became convinced that we humans can alter reality by altering our perceptions of it, the lid was off the pitcher. “Gradually he (Hesse) had come to recognize that very often despair, misery, and degeneration are simply the price we’re charged for our bad attitudes and myopic vision.To reap lasting rewards, to escape the briar patch of perpetuated trauma, the gazer must delve beneath the ego level, the personality level, the level of genetic predisposition and environmental conditioning, must penetrate more deeply even than the archetypal underworld.”
“ The problem, for writers and readers alike, with all this inward gazing is how few of us ever gaze in far enough to justify the strain. “Hesse ‘is deeply loved by those among the American young who are questing,’ wrote Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.”Ībout Siddhartha (Introduction by Tom Robbins). “Hesse’s call for self-realization coupled with his celebration of Eastern mysticism earned him a huge following among America’s counterculture in the decade after his death.”. In the existential tradition of Nietzsche and Dostoevsky, Hesse portrays the turmoil of a docile young man who is forced to question traditional bourgeois beliefs regarding family, society, and faith.” Based on his experience with Jungian analysis, this breakthrough novel launched a series of works chronicling the Weg nach Innen (inward journey) that he hoped would lead to self-knowledge. “The publication of Demian that same year (it appeared in English in 1923) brought Hesse immediate acclaim throughout Europe. “Chronic wanderlust coupled with growing discontent over his bucolic Rousseau-like existence took him on a formative trip to the East Indies in 1911.”. Instead he pursued a rigorous program of self-study that focused on literature, philosophy, and history and eventually found employment at the Heckenhauer Bookshop in the university town of Tübingen.” Thereafter Hesse rebelled against all attempts at formal schooling. “Having vowed ‘to be a poet or nothing at all,’ the headstrong youth fled the seminary in Maulbronn at the age of fourteen. The Spiritual Hero’s Journey of a Lifetime: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (Book Summary) About Hermann Hesse
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