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Article: Understandinh Hermann Hesse: The Man, his Myth, his Metaphor.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2001
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Understanding Hermann Hesse: The Man, his Myth, his Metaphor. By LEWIS W. TUSKEN. (Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature) Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. 1998. xvi + 253 pp. $29.95.
This volume appears in a series of which the principal aim is to emphasize 'the sociological and historical background of the writers treated'. However, it is more a reflection of Hesse's subjectivist concerns than of Lewis W. Tusken's essentialist approach that the work succeeds above all as a further contribution to the biographical approach to Hesse, represented most impressively in the studies by Boulby, Mileck and Stelzig. Certainly, there is ...