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Book Synopsis The most original, new work on Hesse in many years and the definitive study of the young Herman Hesse, offering much previously unknown material such as his "neo-Romantic" poetry of which two dozen are published here for the first time in the original.
Trade Review "... recommended to graduates and faculty" · Choice
"It is an extraordinary tale of dedication in the face of the severest parental disapproval, financial hardship and ill-health. Helt tells it well, drawing extensively on primary sources such as letters, diary entries and the like, and demonstrates the extent to which Hesse subsumed all his efforts to conducting his apprenticeship … A readable and informative volume, which usefully augments our knowledge of the rigorous years of a major modern writer." · Journal of European Studies
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
PART I: CALW AND TÜBINGEN (1877-1899)
Chapter 1. Chronology
Chapter 2. Parents, Son and School
Chapter 3. The Tübingen Years: Not Quite "Breaking Away"
- Bookseller and Privatstudent
- A Poet Emerges
Chapter 4. Social Life and First Successes
- "Lulu," the Summer of 1899, and Leaving Tübingen
PART II: BASEL (1899-1903)
Chapter 5. Chronology
Chapter 6. Adjusting to Basel and New Freedom
Chapter 7. Elizabeth
- Taking a Critical Look at Basel: Das Rathaus
Chapter 8. New Contacts, New Poetry - The Notturni, the Gedichte
The Waldpfarrer and his friends
Chapter 9. The Last Cénacler, Ludwig Finckh
The Notturni and the Gedichte
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
