- Paperback
- Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (Jun 1971)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0374509255
- ISBN-13: 978-0374509255
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.7 x 1.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,010,214 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Hesse's "The European" - key 20th century essay
22 April 2004
Format:Paperback
I don't know the "Amazon.com Customer" who wrote the 1998 review of Hesse's small book of essays _If the War Goes On_. What I do know is more than 30 YEARS after reading the same essay, "THE EUROPEAN", I'm obliged to continue recommending it to people everywhere. Hesse was European and German yet a pacifist. He also was a person with a healthy self-criticism for the population to which he belonged. In pre-Hitlerian Europe (specifically Germany) he must have suffered for his ideas and feelings far from the Teutonic/Euro ordinary. Yet he had enough courage to claim and share what he perceived. "The European" is a lesson for our times. Get this book. Share this essay.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
For Hesse Fans and Pacifists Too
10 Aug 1998
Format:Paperback
What is it like to be a famous German novelist living in Switzerland during World War II? Innumerable Germans at their wits' end would write Hermann Hesse hoping that somehow he could help them. In this collection of short pieces, Hesse shows that the best way he knew to achieve peace was to use his pen.
It is worth getting your hands on this book just in order to read "The European," which reminds us that philosophy must above all be practical.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Superbly translated essays and letters
29 Aug 2003
Format:Paperback
This volume covers the period from September 1914 to 1948, and consists of essays and other writings on war and Hesse's reactions to it. I was surprised how what he said resonated with me--filled with opposition to German militarism and detestion of the Nazi horror. I was again reminded of Hesse's greatness, and I don't see how the language of the translation could be better. I was greatly moved by the proof that there were good Germans who cringed in pain as they watched the slide to Hitlerian madness. There are 25 separate pieces and I am glad I own this book, so I can refer to them again and again.
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