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Hermann Hesse | | Birth Date: |
June 2, 1877 | | Death Date: |
August 9, 1962 | | Place of Birth: |
Calw, Germany | | Place of Death: |
Montagnola, Switzerland | | Nationality: |
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 Biography of Hermann Hesse
15714 words, approx. 52.4 pages
 Only a few German writers of the twentieth century have enjoyed worldwide acclaim. Undisputably numbered among these are Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, and Hermann Hesse. Hesse's major works have been translated into some thirty-five languages... summary from source:
 Biography of Hermann Hesse
14348 words, approx. 47.8 pages
Only a few German writers of the twentieth century have enjoyed worldwide acclaim. Undisputably numbered among these are Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, and Hermann Hesse. Hesse's major works have been translated into some thirty-five languages... summary from source:
 Biography of Hermann Hesse
4896 words, approx. 16.3 pages
Hermann Hesse, the most widely translated German author of the twentieth century, authored what he liked to call "biographies of the soul." Though many of his best-known works were novels, they were largely autobiographical, and centered recurrently on o...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Steppenwolf Information
1,804 words, approx. 6 pages
 Der Steppenwolf is the tenth novel by Hermann Hesse, combining autobiographical and fantastic elements. Released in 1928 and named after the lonesome wolf of the steppes, or coyote, the book in large part reflects a profound crisis in Hesse's spiritual...
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 Stanford Social Innovation Review Steppenwolf's NEW Stage
01/01/2003: 3,991 words, approx. 13 pages A theater ensemble transforms into a company with a bottom line How does a nonprofit arts organization expand? How do artistic, executive, and board leadership roles evolve as an organization grows? What are the risks of growth? What are some principles that can... summary from source:
American Theatre Steppenwolf howls again. (Steppenwolf Theater Co.)(Cover Story)
05/01/1996: 7,431 words, approx. 25 pages Chicago, IL's Steppenwolf Theater Co. is celebrating its 20th anniversary season. The theater is the most-celebrated actors' theater in America, and 90% of its founding members live in other cities or states. Steppenwolf may have difficulty maintaining a tradition of anti-traditional performances on its... summary from source:
 AP News 'August: Osage County' ignites Broadway
1/3/2008: 1,197 words, approx. 4 pagesTracy Letts' soul never strays too far from the Midwest. Born and raised in southern Oklahoma, the playwright made it to New York by way of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company.And he's set his astounding hit Broadway play, "August: Osage County," on the Oklahoma plains. After... summary from source:
AP News Best productions on, off-Broadway in '07
12/28/2007: 390 words, approx. 1 pagesThe best productions, on or off-Broadway, in 2007:_ "August: Osage County." Tracy Letts' Broadway debut is a big, juicy melodrama filled with family fights and funny business, not to mention the best ensemble acting in town, courtesy of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company._ "Radio Golf." The...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Peter D. Hertz
2,061 words, approx. 7 pages
[When] I say that Steppenwolf functions as a "bible" I mean that it seems to serve as THE book for certain people, as the one book that says it all, that grabs you and will not let you go, to the point of physical as well as mental commitment. (p. 440) A book that is to produce martyrs or converts among its readers need not show the balance of a genuine "classic," need not fulfill the highest aesthetic standards of harmony and bearing and sublimity…. Common to a "bi... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Seymour L. Flaxman
1,563 words, approx. 5 pages
Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf is a novel of ideas and a novel of character…. It is the delineation of character, after all, that gives a novel the power to stand alone, to resist the aging processes of time, and to appeal to a large audience. This is not to belittle or disparage in any way the ideas involved. For Hesse takes up many of the central problems of our time, problems which have still not been solved…. The hero of Hesse's novel is a middle-aged, middle-class writer and th... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Egon Schwarz
1,023 words, approx. 3 pages
What do the American dissidents see in Hesse? (p. 981) Hesse's works, from the earliest to the latest, are written for and about young people…. Problems of school, of growing up, of finding one's place in the world predominate in most of his novels. When a novel exceptionally deals with an older man, as does Steppenwolf, it is characteristically the problems of rejuvenation, of a second adolescence, that are in the foreground. Only Hesse the novelist is being appropriated by the America...
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Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse | |
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