Pictor's Metamorphoses: and Other Fantasies

In the spring of 1922 several months after completing Siddhartha Hermann Hesse wrote a fairy tale that was also a love story inspired by the woman who was to become his second wife. That story Pictors Metamorphoses is the centerpiece of this anthology of Hesses luminous short fiction. Based on The Arabian Nights and the work of the Brothers Grimm the nineteen stories collected here represent a half century of Hesses short writings. They display the full range of Hesses lifetime fascination with fantasy--as dream fairy tale satire or allegory.