“Before your LSD session, read Siddartha and Steppenwolf,” advised Timothy Leary. By John Gray Writing to the woman who would become his third wife, Hermann Hesse complained: “Life for me now holds ...

When the novel about an Indian man's spiritual journey was first published, it barely created a ripple. Decades later, it inspired millions to embark on a voyage of self-discovery. "Siddhartha" is the ...

In a sunlit courtyard in Montagnola, in the southern foothills of the Swiss Alps, German author and curator Regina Bucher is telling me about her lifelong fascination with Hermann Hesse. Regina moved ...

In a world obsessed with speed, success, and social comparison, it’s easy to lose sight of who we are and what truly matters. That’s where Hermann Hesse’s writing comes in—not as a quick fix, but as a ...

In our collective imagination, “Arcadia” represents that idyllic region located in Greece, described, among others, by Virgil in his Bucolics in 40 B.C. as a place of tranquillity, devoted to the ...

“It has to be said, there are no points to be won from liking Hesse nowadays.” This rueful assessment of the novelist Hermann Hesse, quoted in the opening pages of Gunnar Decker’s new biography, ...

Heiner Hesse, designer, illustrator and editor: born Basle, Switzerland 1 March 1909; married (four children); died Arcegno, Switzerland 7 April 2003. Heiner Hesse was for more than 35 years the ...

The writer Hermann Hesse praised his beloved Swiss Alps to the skies, although the other tourists in the Engadine Valley really got on his nerves. Hermann Hesse turned out to be a proper killjoy: the ...

A permanent exhibition on the German-Swiss writer, painter and poet Hermann Hesse, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946, and is considered the most read writer of the 20 th Century.