HERMAN HESSE AND METAMORMPHOSIS OF THE POET

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*HERMAN HESS,b.JULY 2,1877,KALW,SHWARTZWALD,GERMANY
d.AUGUST 9,1962,MONTAGNOLA, SWITZERLAND

HERMAN HESSE,THE GERMAN POET AND WRITER OF LYRIC AND CONFESSIONAL WORKS IS ALWAYS TRYING TO FIND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THOUGHTFUL ,SPIRITUAL MAN AND THE UNSEEN SOURCE OF POWER,IN A SEPARATION FROM THE SOCIETY.THIS IS MORE THE IMAGE OF HIMSELF LIVING IN A BRUTAL ENVIRONMENT.AND THAT IS WHY HE LEFT HIS COUNTRY AND LIVED IN EXILE TO THE END OF HIS LIFE.
IN A PSYCHOLOGICAL JOURNEY,HESSE ALSO WENT TOWARDS EAST AND LEFT BEHIND BOOKS LIKE SIDDHARTA AND JOURNEY TO THE EAST.HESSE'S OTHER JOURNEY WAS TO REALM OF PSYCHOANALYSIS TO RELIEVE HIS PERSONAL CRISIS.HE BEFRIENDED JUNG AND WROTE WORKS SUCH AS DEMIAN WITH HIS INFLUENCE.
HERMAN HESSE WHO WAS INSPIRED BY PHILOSOPHERS SUCH AS SOCRATES,SCHOPENHAUER AND NIETZSCHE,ONCE SAID:
"ONE NEVER REACHES HOME.BUT WHEREVER FRIENDLY PATHS INTERSECT THE WORLD LOOKS LIKE HOME FOR AWHILE."
-H.HESSE:DEMIAN.
HESSE,S BOOKS ARE AMONGST THE MOST FAVORITES OF IRANIAN BOOK READERS AND BIBLIOPHILES.THAT IS WHY HIS 67 OEUVRES HAVE BEEN TRANSLATED AND PUBLISHED THROUGH MORE THAN 80 BOOKS IN FARSI,AND SOME OF THEM REPEATEDLY SO .BETWEEN THESE BOOKS YOU MAY FIND:
~HERMAN HESSE'S PETER KAMENZIND ,TR.BY PARAND KESHVARI,GUYA ,TEHRAN,IRAN 1369/1990,INTRODUCTION BY FARAMARZ SOLEIMANI.
ALSO:
~FARAMARZ SOLEIMANI: HERMAN HESSE AND METAMORPHOSIS
OF THE POET,ESPARAK,TEHRAN 1367/1988 , WITH AN INTRODUCTION IN 61 PAGES ON REVIEW AND LITERARY CRITICISM OF HESSE'S WORKS,AND TRANSLATION OF HIS POEMS IN ADDITION TO HIS HIS ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY.THIS A THREE BOOKS COLLECTED AND PUBLISHED IN ONE VOLUME.
I ALSO WROTE ABOUT HESSE AND TRANSLATED HIS WORKS IN LITERARY JOURNALS OF 1360'S IRAN SUCH AS ADINEH (WHEN PUBLISHED AS NEWSPAPER) AND DONYAYE SOKHAN.SOME OF THE OTHER WRITERS AND TRANSLATORS WHO CONTRIBUTED TO FARSI VERSION OF HERMAN HESSE'S WORKS ARE:
GHASSEM KABIRI,PARVIZ DARIUSH,SORUSH HABIBI,MOHAMMAD BAGHAI,MINA BIGLARI,SAFIEH RUHI,DELARA GHAHREMAN(PETGAR),SIRUS SHAMISSA,...
HESSE SAYS : "THE SOUND OF DEATH IS THE SOUND OF LOVE."
TODAY IS THE DAY THAT THE WINNER OF 1946 NOBEL PRIZE OF LITERATURE RESPONDED TO THESE CALLS AND LEFT THE WORLD.
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