... 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 of which emphasize the split between the worlds of the flesh and the mind. Hesse strives through his work to effect ... a reconciliation between these two sides to every person, always with the aspiration of transcending the realm of the individual man and entering the dominion of the universal spirit. Sidd...

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