Hermann Hesse
Tallinn : Logos, 2000
112 p.
ISBN 9985925610
Pocket-size softcover ex-library book in good condition
Hermann Hesse never forgot his passionate childhood wish to become a magician. Reality often contradicted what felt right to him, and he had to discover a hidden transformative power within himself. As a writer, Hesse in fact became a kind of magician—someone who longs for more than the mundane and material, and who is not bound by the desire for possession or success. He became a wanderer who senses the magic of beginnings but does not know the end of the path. He does not understand magical power as the exercise of control, but as a calling that is followed alone and with empty hands.