Butterflies
Reflections, Tales, and Verse
Published on 30. May 2023
136 pages
979-8-9859558-3-5 (ISBN)
Description
This volume gathers the most alluring stories, recollections, contemplations and poems on butterflies by Herman Hesse.
"I have always had a connection with butterflies and other fleeting and ephemeral beauties, while I have never succeeded in maintaining permanent, committed and so-called solid relationships," writes Hermann Hesse in a letter from 1926. This preference, occasionally resembling an elective affinity, for "flowers and butterflies, that are of everlasting things, a fleeting allegory" ? as he says in one of his poems, has left its mark on Hesse's entire oeuvre.More details
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Hermann Hesse was born in 1877 in Calw, Germany. He grew to become a celebrated author and the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. As the son of missionaries, he developed a fascination with self-discovery and spiritual explorations, an interest also likely due in part to his lifelong struggle with depression, which led him to study Sigmund Freud and, later, to undergo psychoanalysis with Carl Jung. In 1912 he moved to Switzerland, where he wrote his best-known books, including the classic Siddhartha; composed poetry; and painted landscapes. He passed away in 1962 in Montagnola, Switzerland. Hesse is one of the most widely translated authors of the twentieth century; his work continues to have influence worldwide.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- On Butterflies
- A Butterfly
- My Earliest Memory
- Blue Butterfly
- The Giant Peacock Moth
- Dedication to a Poetry Collection
- Apollo: A Day's Wanderings About Lake Lucerne
- Butterfly in Wine
- The Yellow Tiger Moth
- Confession
- Indian Butterflies
- The Butterfly
- The Plunder of Summer Excursions
- From Demian
- Butterflies in Late Summer
- A Butterfly from Madagascar
- A Moth
- Writ in Sand
- The Mourning Cloak
- March Sun
- Late Summer
- Afterword by Volker Michels
- Editorial Note
- Sources
- List of Plates
- About the Author
- Copyright
