Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Producers Eric Kopeloff and Philip Schulz-Deyle have optioned Hermann Hesse’s “Demian” and plan to adapt the novel into a feature ...

A trove of newly rediscovered works by the Nobel Prize-winning poet, novelist, and painter Hermann Hesse is going under the hammer at a rare books auction at Ketterer Kunst Hamburg on May 18 and 19.

When I was told “throwback review” I figured go big or go home and subsequently decided to throw way back to 1919, when German author Hermann Hesse first published perhaps his best-known work of ...

Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow, by Gunnar Decker, translated by Peter Lewis (Harvard University Press, 800 pp., $39.95) English-language scholars have contributed almost as much to an ...

Head of School (Modern Languages), Royal Holloway, University of London This year’s Edinburgh fringe has seen the UK premiere of Siddhartha: The Musical. The show is based on the classic novel ...

In our collective imagination, “Arcadia” represents that idyllic region located in Greece, described, among others, by Virgil in his Bucolics in 40 B.C. as a place of tranquillity, devoted to the ...