Hermann Hesse's Fictions of the Self: Autobiography and the Confessional Imagination

by Eugene L. Stelzig

Book Overview

This masterful synthesis of criticism and biography surveys all of Hermann Hesse's major works and many of his minor ones in relation to the intricate psychological design of his entire life history. Eugene Stelzig examines what it means to be an "autobiographical writer" by considering Hesse's fictions of the self as an exemplary instance of the relationship between life and art and between biography and autobiography. In a graceful and inviting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691606315
• ISBN13: 9780691606316
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"