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Beneath the wheel
Title:
Beneath the wheel
Author:
Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962, author.
Uniform Title:
Unterm Rad. English
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, [1968]
Physical Description:
187 pages ; 22 cm
Summary:
In Hermann Hesse's Beneath the Wheel or The Prodigy, Hans Giebenrath lives among the dull and respectable townsfolk of a sleepy Black Forest village. When he is discovered to be an exceptionally gifted student, the entire community presses him onto a path of serious scholarship. Hans dutifully follows the regimen of tireless study and endless examinations, his success rewarded only with more crushing assignments. When Hans befriends a rebellious young poet, he begins to imagine other possibilities outside the narrowly circumscribed world of the academy. Finally sent home after a nervous breakdown, Hans is revived by nature and romance, and vows never to return to the gray conformity of the academic system.
General Note:
Translation of Unterm Rad.
Language:
English
Added Author:
ISBN:
9780312422301
Format :
Book