Peter Camenzind was the first novel by Hermann Hesse and contains a number of themes that were to preoccupy many of Hesse's later works, most notably the individual's search for a unique spiritual and physical identity amidst the backdrops of nature and...
When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on some clothes,for he was naked, and jumped into the sea. John 21:7 Fishing, he could be naked, just a man, a body in the sun, sleeked by the waves, the net's...
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Peter Riemann 01/08/2006: 381 words, approx. 1 pages
Peter Riemann PAID OBITUARIES Peter Riemann, 55, died Jan. 4, 2006, at his home in Lancaster after a fearless and graceful battle with cancer. Peter was born November 3, 1950, in Verden, Germany, to Elizabeth and Rolf Riemann and lived most of his...
[In] Peter Camenzind we have an essentially reflective work; the hero, in recounting his experiences, distances himself from them, mulls them over, extracts lessons from them with which he does not fail to instruct the reader, and uses them as a starting point for a generalizing, rather sententious commentary upon life. To assist in this, the technique is essentially one of retrospect, and the wisdom is one of hindsight…. His self-knowledge, when he painfully achieves it, acquires for him the quality...
