SHE@KTBH

"Soledad era independencia, yo la había deseado y la había conseguido... La soledad era fría, es cierto, pero también era tranquila, magníficamente tranquila y grande, como el tranquilo espacio frío en el que se mueven las estrellas."

HERMANN HESSE

Herman Hesse’s writings are influenced by Francis of Assisi, Buddha, Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky. A recurring theme is the individual’s search for authenticity, spirituality and balance. Der Steppenwolf (1927) (Steppenwolf) deals with humankind’s ambivalence between instinct and spirit, freedom and piety. Das Glasperlenspiel (1943) (The Glass Bead Game, also published under the name Magister Ludi), a novel of ideas, depicts a mysterious intellectual order whose final test of knowledge and sense of beauty is a mysterious game with glass beads. The search for enlightenment is also a clear theme in the novel Siddhartha.