num_pages: 145
description: In 1919, the same year Demian was published, seven of these stories appeared as a book entitled Märchen (lit. Fairy Tales). This 1st edition in English has followed the arrangement Hesse made for the final collected edition of his works, where he added an 8th story, "Flute Dream".  The new note so clear in Demian was 1st sounded, Hesse believed, in some of these tales written during 1913-18, the period that brought him into conflict with supporters of the war, with his country &amp; its government, with conventional intellectual life, with every form of orthodoxy both in the world &amp; in himself. Unlike his earlier work, from Peter Carmenzind thru Knulp, the stories in Strange News from Another Star don't allow for an essentially realistic interpretaion. They are concerned with dream worlds, the subconscious, magical thinking &amp; the numinous experience of the soul. Their subject is the distilling of wisdom. Strange news from another star --Faldum --Iris --Fine dream sequence --A difficult path --The poet --Augustus
language: English
title: Strange News from Another Star and Other Tales
titlecomplete: Strange News from Another Star and Other Tales (English and German Edition)
genres: Literature, German Literature, Classics, Novels, Philosophy, Germany, European Literature, Short Stories, Fiction, Fantasy
ratings_count: 1980
publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (NY)