Fragment from the Youth

A new translation of Hesse's 1907 Fragment from the Youth (Fragment aus der Jugendzeit). This edition also contains an epilogue by the translator, a philosophical glossary of concepts used by Hesse and a chronology of his life and work. Hesse won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947. He also received the Goethe Prize of Frankfurt in 1946 and the 1955 Peace Prize of the German Booksellers. Hesse's "Fragment from the Youth" was published in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung in 1907.

"I cannot read Hermann Hesse without feeling that I am drawn into the presence of a deeply serious mind, a mind that is searching for the meaning of life." - Carl Jung