Butterflies: Reflections, Tales, and Verse

ISBN-13:	9798985955859
Publisher:	Kales Press
Publication date:	05/30/2023
Pages:	136
Sales rank:	644,256
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.10(h) x 0.70(d)

This volume gathers the most alluring stories, recollections, contemplations and poems on butterflies by Herman Hesse.  "I have always had a connection with butterflies and other fleeting and ephemeral beauties, while I have never succeeded in maintaining permanent, committed and so-called solid relationships," writes Hermann Hesse in a letter from 1926. This preference, occasionally resembling an elective affinity, for "flowers and butterflies, that are of everlasting things, a fleeting allegory" – as he says in one of his poems, has left its mark on Hesse’s entire oeuvre.