Johan Veraguth is a successful and wealthy painter, but he and his wife Adele are unhappy in a loveless marriage. The two essentially live apart in their beautiful country estate, Roshalde. She in the main mansion, he isolated in the outbuilding he has converted into a studio – two strangers bound only by conventions and their love for their younger son, Pierre.
Johan’s weakness for his young son and his fear of losing all stability in his life keep him captive at Roshalde. Until fate knocks on his door in an unexpected way...
A largely autobiographical novel in which Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse channels the sorrow from his own failed marriage, while simultaneously posing a broader question: Can an artist, a thinker, live like other people, with the joys and sorrows of an ordinary life, or is he condemned to the eternal loneliness of creation?
“Hesse’s award […] honors a poetic achievement that as a whole depicts the struggle of a man who follows his calling with rare faith.” From Hermann Hesse’s Nobel Prize in Literature award citation, 1946
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- Author
- Hermann Hesse
- Publisher
- Dioptra
- Original Title
- Rosshalde
- Publishers
- Dioptra
- Type
- Classical Literature, Prose
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 248
- Release Date
- 08/10/2025
- Publication Date
- 2025
- Dimensions
- 14x20.5 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9786181001203
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