By Hermann Hesse
ISBN-10: 0374232121
ISBN-13: 9780374232122
THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER'S 1922 FAIRY story a few YOUN guy within the backyard OF PARADISE IS followed by means of EIGHTEEN different tales OF delusion, DREAM, SATIRE, AND FOLKTALE ELEMENTS.
summary: THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER'S 1922 FAIRY story a few YOUN guy within the backyard OF PARADISE IS followed by way of EIGHTEEN different tales OF delusion, DREAM, SATIRE, AND FOLKTALE parts
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Here Hesse uses the form of the Märchen to make an ironic comment on the academic study of fairy tales, which tends through its analysis to disenchant the very object of its study, as well as the scholarly assessments of his own works, to several of which he alludes playfully in the text. In every case, then, from the fairy tale of the ten-year-old Hesse to the ironic fable of the sixty-year-old, the narratives that Hesse specifically labeled as Märchen display two characteristics that distinguish them from his other prose narratives.
In his childhood, the wish was directed toward external childish goals—to make apples grow in winter or to fill his purse with gold and silver. Looking back, however, Hesse came to realize that his whole subsequent life had been motivated by the desire for magic powers—though by magic he now meant the transformation of reality, the creation of a wholly new reality, in his writing. Certainly the distrust of everyday “reality”—it is characteristic that he customarily bracketed the term with quotation marks to indicate what he regarded as its tentative, problematic nature—remained a conspicuous theme in Hesse’s thought throughout his life.
The next group of Hesse’s fantasies is certainly consistent with that generational tendency (notably, “The Tourist City in the South,” “Among the Massagetae,” “King Yu,” and “Bird”). The techniques of the fantasy—reification of abstract concepts within the framework of a simplified moral system—lend themselves to the exposure of existing social and cultural ills. Hesse shared the expressionist sense that the old social order was collapsing and that a new humanity was going to emerge from that chaos.
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