Hermann Hesse. Bibliography & Comment on reserve in the Uris Library Reading Room.

Theodore Ziolkowski, Hermann Hesse.
ed., Hesse. A Collection of Critical Essays.
Mark Boulby, Hermann Hesse: His Mind and Art.
Joseph Mileck, Hermann Hesse: Life, Work, and Criticism.
Ralph Freedman, Hermann Hesse: Pilgrim of Crisis.
Miguel Serrano, C. G. Jung and Hermann Hesse.
C. G. Jung et al., Man and his Symbols.

Paul Fussel, The Great War and Modern Memory. (W.W.I)

All Quiet on the Western Front. The Hollywood Anti-War classic.
The Red Baron. Authentic WWI footage of Manfred v. Richthofen and his Flying Circus.
WWI: The Death of Glory. Two recent 50 min. tapes from the History Channel.
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There is an echo of 19th century biology's recapitulation theory in the last paragraph of Hesse's own preface to Demian. For further information on the theory read Stephen Jay Gould: Ontogeny and Phylogeny, Harvard U Press 1977. A folksier version by the same author in Natural History (Dec 87): "Freud's Nature Fantasies".

"Beatrice". For a glimpse of what she might look like see Dante Gabriel Rosetti's famous painting Beata Beatrix of 1863 (Tate Gallery, London).

A comprehensive and enlightening treatment of "the woman on a pedestal" can be found in
Marina Warner, Alone of all her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary.
I can't resist adding a German title here:
Eva Schirmer, Eva - Maria: Rollenbilder von Maennern fuer Frauen.

For a background on the Christian tradition of repressed sexuality, a topic that surfaces in every major work of Hesse's, consult
Peter Brown, The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity.
Also: Elaine Pagels, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent.
For my own condensed history of human sexuality see "Why Sex?" in The Cornell Daily Sun of 5-2-88.

And, more broadly, for a renewed emphasis on the importance of childhood in human development see the pioneering work of one of Hesse's contemporaries, the Swedish feminist and pedagogue

Ellen Key, The Century of the Child (1900). It draws heavily on Rousseau and Goethe and devotes a chapter to "The School of the Future".

There are multiple echoes of the renewed concern over the fate of children in the literature of Hesse's contemporaries. We will read one of them, Rilke's radical re-interpretation of the parable of the Prodigal Son at the end of his only novel, Malte Laurids Brigge. It begins with the lapidary statement: "It will be difficult to persuade me that the story of the prodigal son is not the legend of one who did not want to be loved."

Interested in "Child Care among the Insects?" Read all about it in the January 1999 issue of Scientific American.