[The] figure of the Prodigal Son, or as he is known to the Germans, the Lost Son, corresponds to Hesse's self-image as well as to the image of his protagonists.
The epithet verlorener Söhn is first specifically used by Hesse in the poem "Die Entgleisten."…
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