Come discuss Hermann Hesse's literature, paintings and his most peculiar life.

The pilgrim to the East, that subjective Pleroma, where self-realization is found and the diversity of opposites is reconciled into a harmonious whole, Hermann Hesse, began his journey on July 2nd, 1877, through the hell of his innermost being, where he was born on the outskirts of the Black Forest in the picturesque town of Calw, Württemberg, Germany. The last steps of his pilgrims path, on this physical plane of existence, were taken on the 9th of August, 1962.

During his travels, he left behind for us many; poems, political jottings, paintings, autobiographical writings and 11 novels, which all collectively demonstrate and outline that very personal and intimate journey to the self. The list of novels are as follows:

-Peter Camenzind (1904)
-Beneath the Wheel (1906)
-Gertrude (1910)
-Rosshalde (1914)
-Knulp: Three Tales From the Life of Knulp (1915)
-Demian (1919)
-Siddhartha (1922)
-Steppenwolf (1927)
-Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)
-Journey to the East, the (1932)
-Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi), the (1943)

In 1946, Hermann Hesse was awarded the Nobel Prize of Literature for the novel 'The Glass Bead Game'.

*~Other Hesse titles (updated as they come to mind, until list is complete)

-Autobiographical Writings (composed of various writings of autobiographical content)
-Poems (selected and translated by James Wright) (1970)