He maintained a correspondence with Hesse, only recently discovered, from 1939 to 1951. George Goetz was a Danish Jew living in Sweden because of persecution. It was made into a beautiful film in 1972 by Conrad Rooks. The story of a son rebelling against his father's teaching and traditions and eventually finding true enlightenment resonated with those maturing in the 1960s and 1970s making this title something of a cult classic. Hesse based this book on the early life of Gautama Buddha. This copy is SIGNED in ink by the author with a brief inscription on the front endpaper. The true First Edition with the text in German of one of this Nobel Prize winner's two famous and important novels, the other being of course STEPPENWOLF. Thin octavo (5-3/4" x 8-3/4") bound in the publisher's heavy brown wraps with black lettering on the front cover and a later cloth tape hand-lettered spine, 9-146,.
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