Pictor's Metamorphoses and Other Fantasies
by Hermann Hesse
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Author: Hermann HesseEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1982-12
ISBN: 0374517231
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Book Review: A terrific introduction to Hesse
Summary: 5 Stars
Hesse was an inveterate story writer and this collection is an excellent introduction to his work. Most of these tales are only a few pages long and even the longest can be completed in one sitting. They also span his entire career and give the reader a great overview of the author's style.I recommend especially the title story, "Pictor's Metamorphoses": here a youth named Pictor wanders into a garden and finds a magic carbuncle which transforms him into a tree. But he realizes that his life his incomplete, and remains unhappy until a girl wanders into the same garden...
Summary of Pictor's Metamorphoses and Other Fantasies
Selected and with an Introduction by Theodore Ziolkowski In the spring of 1922, several months after completing Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse wrote a fairy tale that was also a love story, inspired by the woman who was to become his second wife. That story, "Pictor's Metamorphoses," is presented here along with a half century of Hesse's other short writings. Inspired by the Arabian Nights and the tales of the Brothers Grimm, these nineteen stories display the full range of Hesse's lifetime fascination with fantasy--as dream, fairy tale, folktale, satire, and allegory.Short Stories Books
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