Frederick Sandys portrait of Fanny Eaton (Pharyah)
Erich Kästner Monument
A new translation by David Horrocks. At first sight Harry Haller seems like a respectable, educated man. In reality he is the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, alienated from society and repulsed by the modern age. But as he is drawn into a series of dreamlike and sometimes savage encounters - accompanied by, among others, Mozart, Goethe and the bewitching Hermione - the misanthropic Haller discovers a higher truth, and the possibility of happiness. This haunting portrayal of a man who feels he is half-human and half-wolf became a counterculture classic for a disaffected generation. Yet it is also a story of redemption, and an intricately-structured modernist masterpiece. This is the first new translation of Steppenwolf for over eighty years, returning to the fresh, authentic language of Hesse's original.
Pack up the popsicles and beat the heat with five out of the box ideas for the raddest summer ever.
The Candy Crush game has been around since 2012. Some life lessons can be derived from it. It reminded me of the famous book by Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game.
Your mother was an artist. What kind of art was in your home in Idaho? She was studying at that time. A lot of the things she was doing were done at school. But there were books lying around—Robert Smithson, Joseph Beuys, Eva Hesse.
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A Commitment to Creativity
"Great masses of people these days live out their lives in a dull and loveless stupor…I believe what we lack is joy. The ardor that a heightened awareness imparts to life, the conception of life as a happy thing, as a festival… But the high value put upon every minute of time, the idea of hurry-hurry as the most important objective of living, is unquestionably the most dangerous enemy of joy."--Herman Hesse
