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Hermann Hesse's Fictions of the Self: Autobiography and the Confessional Imagination
By (Author) Eugene L. Stelzig
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
833.912
Paperback
362
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
482g
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 r