Hesse

Japanese: ヘッセ

German poet and novelist. Son of a pastor, both parents and grandparents were involved in missionary work in India. He dropped out of seminary and attracted attention with works such as Anthology of Poems (1902). He made a name for himself with the sentimental coming-of-age novel Peter Camenzind (1904, translated into Japanese as Nostalgia), and wrote autobiographical works such as Beneath the Wheel. In 1911 he traveled to India and elsewhere. During World War I he openly denounced the war and formed a friendship with Romain Rolland. Since 1923 he has been a Swiss citizen. In his works, from Demian (1919) to Siddhartha (1922) and The Wolves of the Wilderness (1927), he rigorously explores the inner self, troubled by the conflict between spirit and nature. After Narziss and Goldmund (1930), which depicts the fusion of sensuality and spirit, he spent ten years working on his masterpiece The Glass Bead Game (1943), which depicts a spiritual utopia and demonstrates a state of mature harmony. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. His work has been widely read in Japan since the 1930s.
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Japanese:

ドイツの詩人，小説家。牧師の子で，父母も祖父母もインドで布教に従事。神学校を中退，《詩集》（1902年）などで注目される。感傷的な青春小説《ペーター・カーメンツィント》（1904年，邦訳名《郷愁》）で名を成し，《車輪の下》などの自伝的作品を書く。1911年インドなどを旅行。第１次大戦中公然と戦争を非難，ロマン・ロランと親交を結ぶ。1923年以降スイス国籍。《デーミアン》（1919年）から《シッダールタ》（1922年），《荒野の狼》（1927年）にいたる諸作で，精神と自然の対立に悩む自己の内面をきびしく追求。官能と精神の融合を描く《ナルツィスとゴルトムント》（1930年）の後，10年をかけた大作《ガラス玉演戯》（1943年）で精神のユートピアを描いて円熟調和の境地を示した。1946年ノーベル文学賞。日本でも昭和10年代以降一般によく読まれている。
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