Gertrude - Brossura

Hesse, Hermann

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0720611695 ISBN 13: 9780720611694

Casa editrice: Peter Owen Ltd, 2002

Riassunto

With characteristic insight and penetration, Hermann Hesse explores the destructive nature of human love. As a sensitive, disabled young composer, the narrator is drawn to a sensual singer named Gertrude through their mutual love of music. Gradually he becomes engulfed by an enduring and hopeless passion for her but, because of his fear of arousing sympathy instead of passion, he loses her. When Gertrude marries his friend, a famous singer, he is compelled to stand by and watch passively as their obsessive relationship disintegrates into tragedy.

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Recensione:

Gertrude is very teutonic in its music, its agonies and its solemnity. Yet it would be a pity to miss this book it has such a rare flavour of truth and simplicity. --Stevie Smith, Observer

Brooding teutonic power . . . the musical detail is extraordinarily well done. --Times Literary Supplement

Whether or not one accepts the philosophy implicit in this tale, there is no question of the beauty and artistry of its telling. --Scotsman

L'autore:

Hermann Hesse (1877?1962) was a poet, novelist, and painter whose best-known works include Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, and The Glass Bead Game, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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• Editore: Peter Owen Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0720611695
• ISBN 13: 9780720611694
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208