{"product_id":"strange-news-paperback","title":"Strange News - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHermann Hesse\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cstrong\u003eStrange News\u003c\/strong\u003e\" is a collection of newly translated fairy tales written by \u003cstrong\u003eHermann Hesse\u003c\/strong\u003e during \u003cstrong\u003eWorld War One\u003c\/strong\u003e. The book, which is a \u003cstrong\u003eCollector's Item\u003c\/strong\u003e contains: \u003cstrong\u003eStrange News from Another Star\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eFaldum\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eIris\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eFine Dream Sequence\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eA Difficult Path\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eThe Poet\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003e Augustus\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eFlute Dream\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book title was inspired by Hesse's timeless classic \"\u003cstrong\u003eStrange News from Another Star\u003c\/strong\u003e\". \u003cstrong\u003eHesse\u003c\/strong\u003e wrote this short fairy tale in April 1915, one year after the start of the \u003cstrong\u003eFirst World War\u003c\/strong\u003e. At the time of writing, \u003cstrong\u003eHesse\u003c\/strong\u003e was working as an \u003cstrong\u003earmy nurse\u003c\/strong\u003e tending to wounded soldiers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the fairy tale, two stars are juxtaposed. \u003cstrong\u003eOn one star\u003c\/strong\u003e, life is valued, beauty is appreciated, reason is respected, humane traditions are cultivated, love and happiness are experienced and peace prevails. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn the other star\u003c\/strong\u003e, jealousy, hatred and despair are cultivated, wars are waged incessantly, battlefield murder is officially condoned, the countryside is left strewn with unattended cadavers and fear prevails. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe latter is clearly our world as \u003cstrong\u003eHesse\u003c\/strong\u003e saw it, rendered mythical, and the former is an idealized world that ours could be. Unlike his earlier works, the story does not lend itself to rational interpretation. It is essentially a fairy tale dealing with the subconscious, magic and the dream world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe fairy tale represents an intermediate stage between \u003cstrong\u003eHesse\u003c\/strong\u003e's initial ambiguous stance to the war, as an internationalist who tolerated war and a pacifist who looked forward to a German victory, and his later active anti-war campaign. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLater in his life, \u003cstrong\u003eHesse\u003c\/strong\u003e changed his initial naive view, that the war is nobody's fault and that it occurs by itself. He came to acknowledge the detrimental role that the military-industrial complex plays in promoting wars, a view that brought him into conflict with supporters of the war, his country and its government. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLooking at the world today, seeing military conflicts raging in many pockets around the globe, with no discernible reason or end strategies in sight, while daily life goes on as usual around us, we tend to appreciate \u003cstrong\u003eHesse\u003c\/strong\u003e's prophetic and timeless vision. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 140\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.33 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 12, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42708877541439,"sku":"9781943341184","price":32.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/12de9ecbbc1e803f28330c3a81ee69ec.webp?v=1765049409","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/strange-news-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}