... and most widely-read German author in America in the 1960s, although he was virtually unknown until he received the Nobel prize for literature in 1946. Today, his work continues to enjoy waves of popularity. Influenced by German Romanticism and late nineteenth-century aestheticism, Hesse was ultimately most celebrated for the novels Siddhartha (1922), Steppenwolf (1927), and Narcissus and Goldmund (1930), all ... to the hippies, who looked to the novel as a sort of instructional manual of sorts on how to achieve nirvana. In the 13 years following its first appearance on the American mar...

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