Oehler, Marie
Oldenberg, Hermann
“On Reading the Summa Contra Gentiles” (1933)
On the Road (1911)
Oppenheim, Erich
Oppenheimer, Franz
Oprecht, Hans
Ossian poems
Ovid
Pagans and Us, The (J. Hesse)
painting
Pannwitz, Rudolf
Paquet, Alfons
Pariser Tageblatt
Pedotti, Ottilio
Penzoldt, Ernst
Perrot, Heinrich (and workshop)
Peter Camenzind (1904)
Pfeffermühle (cabaret)
Pfisterer, Heinz
Picard, Max
Pictor’s Metamorphoses (1922)
Picture Book (1926)
Pietism
Plato
Poems (1902)
Poland
Posthumous Writings and Poems of Hermann Lauscher, The (1901)
Pour le Mérite
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Prinzhorn, Hans
Protestantism
Prussian Academy of Arts
psychoanalysis
Purrmann, Hans
Raabe, Wilhelm
Raabe (Wilhelm) Prize
Radio Basel
Rascher, Max
Rathenau, Walther
“Recollections of Some Physicians” (1960)
Reformation
Reich’s bookstore, Basel
reincarnation
Reinhart, Georg; death of; letters to
Reinhart, Hans
religions
Rentschler, August
“Response to Letters Requesting Help” (1947)
Rheinwald, Ernst
Riggenbach, Dr. and family
Rinser, Luise
Rohbra, Kurl Karl
Rolland, Romain; letters to
Romania
Romanticism
Romantic Mind, The
Romantic Songs (1899)
Rosenberg, Julius
Rosenfeld, Otto
Rosshalde (1914)
Rümelin, Theodor
Russia
Sadecki, H.
Saint-Hélier, Monique
Salzer, Eugen
Schädelin, Walter
Schäfer, Wilhelm; letters to
Schäffer, Emil
Schaffner, Jakob
Schall, Franz
Schelling, Friedrich von
Schiler, Fanny
Schiller, Johann Christoph von
Schiller Museum, Marbach
Schläpfer, Pastor G.
Schlegel, Friedrich
Schleiermacher, Friedrich Ernst
Schlenker, Alfred, letters to
Schmid, Hans Rudolf
Schmid, Karl
Schmidtbonn, Wilhelm
Schmitz, Oskar
Schnittkin, Theodor
Schoeck, Hilde
Schoeck, Othmar; letter to
Schott, Rolf
Schrempf, Christoph
Schröder, Rudolf Alexander
Schulenburg, Herr von
Schulz, Herbert
Schusser, Wilhelm
Schwarzenbach, Mathilde
Schwarzschild, Leopold
Schweitzer, Albert
Schweizerische Landesbibliothek, Bern
Schweizer Journal
Seelig, Carl
Seidel, H. W.
Seidel, Ina
Shakespeare, William
Siddhartha (1922)
Silber, Max
Simplicissimus (weekly)
Sinclair, Emil (Hesse pseudonym)
Singapore
Singh, Sundar
socialism
Sonnino, Sidney
Sonntagsbote für die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen, Der (1916–18)
Speiser, Henriette
Spengler, Oswald
Staiger, Emil
Stalin, Joseph
Steppenwolf, Der (1926)
St. Francis of Assisi
“Stolen Suitcase, The” (1944)
Stoll, Arthur
Strauss, Richard
Streicher, Julius
Strich, Fritz
Strowski, Fortunat
Stunden im Garten, see Hours in the Garden
Sturzenegger, Hans; letter to
sublimation
Sudermann, Hermann
Suhrkamp, Peter; letters to
Suhrkamp Verlag
Sumatra
Sweden
Swiss State Library
Swiss Writers’ Union
Switzerland
Tagore, Rabindranath, Sir
Tales of Student Life (1976)
Taoism
Tao Te Ching (1921)
Tavel, Rudolf von
Thiess, Frank
Third Reich; see also Germany
Thoma, Hans
Thoma, Ludwig
Thomas Mann, Briefe 1889–1936 (E. Mann, ed.);
Thorak, Josef
Tieck, Ludwig
Tirpitz, Alfred von
“Toward Peace” (1945)
“Trauermarsch, Der” (1956)
Tschamer, Johann von
Turgenev, Ivan S.
Ukraine
United States
Unseld, Siegfried; letter to
Upanishads
Valéry, Paul
“Verlieren sich im Sand”
Vesper, Will
Virgil
Vivos Voco (review)
Vogel, Traugott
“Vogel” (1932)
Vogelweide, Walther von der
Voigt-Diederichs, Helene; letters to
“Volk, Das,” Olten
Vom Baum des Lebens: Ausgewählte Gedichte (1934)
Votteler, Karl
Wackernagel-Burckhardt, Rudolf; letter to
Walser, Martin
Walser, Robert; death of
Wassmer, Mathilde
Wassmer, Max; letters to
Wattenwyl’s antiquarian bookstore, Basel
Weber, Marianne, letters to
Weber, Werner
Weiss, Walter
Weissen Blätter, Die (monthly)
Welti, Albert
Welti, Friedrich Emil
Welti, Helene; letters to
Wenger, Lisa; letters to
Wenger, Ruth (wife of Hesse); letters to; marriage to Hesse; see also Haussmann, Ruth Wenger
Wenger, Theo; letter to
Werfel, Franz
Werner, Georg
West German Academy
Wiechert, Ernst
Wiegand, Heinrich
Wilder, Thornton
Wilhelm II, Kaiser
Wilhelm, Richard; letter to
Wilhelm, Salome
Winter, Georg
Wittkowski, Victor
Wolff, Kurt
Wölfflin, Heinrich
Woltereck, Richard
World War I
World War II
Wurm, Bishop Theophil
Württemberg schools
yoga
“Zarathustra’s Return” (1919)
Zeller, Eugen; letter to
Zen Buddhism
Zimmer, Heinrich
Zola, Emil
Zweig, Arnold
Zweig, Stefan; letters to
Zwischen Sommer und Herbst (1944)
Zurich Polytechnic
Translation copyright © 1991 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
All rights reserved
The letters in this volume were originally published in Hermann Hesse: Gesammelte Briefe, Erster Band 1895–1921, Zweiter Band 1922–1935, Dritter Band 1936–1948, and Vierter Band 1949–1962, copyright © 1973, 1979, 1982, 1986 by Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main; Hermann Hesse Ausgewählte Briefe, copyright © 1951, 1959, 1964, 1974 by Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main; and Kindheit und Jugend vor Neunze
hnhundert, copyright © 1966 by Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main Introduction copyright © 1991 by Theodore Ziolkowski
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hesse, Hermann, 1877–1962.
[Correspondence. Selections. English]
Soul of the age: the selected letters of Hermann Hesse, 1891–1962 edited and with an introduction by Theodore Ziolkowski ; translated by Mark Harman. — 1st ed.
1. Hesse, Hermann, 1877–1962—Correspondence. 2. Authors, German—20th century—Correspondence. I. Title.
PT2617.E85Z48 1991 838′.91209—dc20 [B] 90-27854CIP
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Hesse at four H. Fuchs, Calw / Hesse family H. Fuchs, Calw; Calw Fritz Eschen, Berlin–Wilmersdorf / Mission school Aus Privatbesitz / Maulbronn Sammlung Eleonore Vondenhoff, Frankfurt am Main; Hesse at 21 Schiller–Nationalmuseum, Marbach / The Petit cénacle Schiller–Nationalmuseum, Marbach / Fiesole, 1906 Aus Privatbesitz; Hesse around 1909 Martin Hesse, Bern / Hesse with Maria and son Martin Hesse, Bern / Hesse and Hans Sturzenegger Aus Privatbesitz; Hesse before outbreak of WWI Martin Hesse, Bern / Maria Hesse Schiller–Nationalmuseum, Marbach / Hesse and Ruth Wenger Schiller–Nationalmuseum, Marbach; Hesse with Thomas Mann Sammlung Eleonore Vondenhoff, Frankfurt am Main / Hesse, 1927 Martin Hesse, Bern; Am Erlenloh Schiller–Nationalmuseum, Marbach / House on Melchenbühlweg Schiller–Nationalmuseum, Marbach / Casa Camuzzi Schiller–Nationalmuseum, Marbach / House in Montagnola Martin Hesse, Bern; Ninon Dolbin Aus Privatbesitz / Hesse with Ninon Aus Privatbesitz / Hesse in Garden Martin Hesse, Bern / Hesse, about 1951 Martin Hesse, Bern.
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