In a sunlit courtyard in Montagnola, in the southern foothills of the Swiss Alps, German author and curator Regina Bucher is telling me about her lifelong fascination with Hermann Hesse. Regina moved ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Producers Eric Kopeloff and Philip Schulz-Deyle have optioned Hermann Hesse’s “Demian” and plan to adapt the novel into a feature ...

“Before your LSD session, read Siddartha and Steppenwolf,” advised Timothy Leary. By John Gray Writing to the woman who would become his third wife, Hermann Hesse complained: “Life for me now holds ...

"Siddhartha" is the story of the spiritual journey of a young man, who shares his name with the Buddha. The novel by Hermann Hesse is set in 6th-century Kapilavastu (now in Nepal), the birthplace of ...

A rich, insightful biography shows how Hermann Hesse overcame self-hatred, ‘freed the German spirit’ and became a guru for hippies In the early 1920s, the German novelist and poet Hermann Hesse set ...

In our collective imagination, “Arcadia” represents that idyllic region located in Greece, described, among others, by Virgil in his Bucolics in 40 B.C. as a place of tranquillity, devoted to the ...

The writer Hermann Hesse praised his beloved Swiss Alps to the skies, although the other tourists in the Engadine Valley really got on his nerves. Hermann Hesse turned out to be a proper killjoy: the ...