Many works, including
Siddhartha
(1922) and
Steppenwolf
(1927), of German-born Swiss writer
Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life; he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946.
Other best-known works of this poet, novelist, and painter include
The Glass Bead Game
, which, also known as
Magister Ludi, explore a search of an individual for spirituality outside society.
In his time, Hesse was a popular and influential author in the Ge…
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