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Hermann Hesse's Fictions of the Self: Autobiography and the Confessional Imagination

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This masterful synthesis of criticism and biography surveys all of Hermann Hesse's major works and many of his minor ones in relation to the intricate psychological design of his entire life history. Eugene Stelzig examines what it means to be an "autobiographical writer" by considering Hesse's fictions of the self as an exemplary instance of the relationship between life ...more
Hardcover , 360 pages
Published November 21st 1988 by Princeton University Press (first published January 1st 1988)
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