Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse

<b>Translated and with an introduction by Jack Zipes</b> <p/>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. <p/><b>Praise for <i>The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse</i></b> <p/>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 <p/></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>