Peter Kamensind. Under the wheel. Gertrude. Roshalde. Gesse G.

This collection includes several iconic works that had a huge impact on the further work of Hesse.

“Peter Kamensind” (1904) tells of the “years of wanderings and exercises” the protagonist - an ordinary peasant guy. Youth, study, first love and faithful friendship, the search for oneself and the best share, the first bitter disappointments and the gradual gain of life experience is what is the content of this very lyrical, partly an autobiographical story.

The theme of education And the racing for ghostly school successes lifts the story “Under the Wheel” (1906). The gifted and fragile boy Hans Pibyenrat devotes all his free time to study, voluntarily refuses his favorite fishing and walks with friends for the sake of one goal - to enter the seminary. And then the bar is taken, the exam is brilliant, but now Hans is more and more afraid to lag behind and falls “under the wheel” of a soulless education machine...

the novel “Gertrude” (1910) is a story that has been repeatedly called the artistic embodiment of motives ” The birth of the tragedy »Nietzsche. It is dedicated to the drama of the young composer, forced to choose between the “rational” and “spontaneous” beginning in work. The real details of Hesse’s life and the features characteristic of him, “donated” to various characters, give the book a special, deep meaning.

What is art? Self -denial or spiritual permissiveness? Why is a person of art doomed to eternal loneliness? Each of the heroes of Roman Hesse answers these questions in his own way...

The collection also includes the novel "Roshald" (1914)