Kinderseele
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Kinderseele ("child-soul") is a short story written by Hermann Hesse. He wrote it between the end of 1918 and the beginning of 1919, at the age of 41. At that time Hesse lived in Bern, Switzerland, where he emigrated to after he had lost his father in 1916, and while his wife and one of his three sons had fallen seriously ill. In addition, he himself was under psychiatric treatment. Kinderseele was published in November 1919 in Die deutsche Rundschau under the pen name Emil Sinclair. It then appeared under his name in the anthology Klingsors letzter Sommer in 1920.
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- Otroška duša
- first line
- Manchmal handeln wir, gehen aus und ein, tun dies und das, und es ist alles leicht, unbeschwert und gleichsam unverbindlich, es könnte scheinbar alles auch anders sein.
- last line
- Als ich im Bett lag, hatte ich die Gewißheit, daß er mir ganz und vollkommen verziehen habe - vollkommener als ich ihm.
- publication date
- 1919-00-00
- inception
- 1918-00-00
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Kinderseele ("child-soul") is a short story written by Hermann Hesse. He wrote it between the end of 1918 and the beginning of 1919, at the age of 41. At that time Hesse lived in Bern, Switzerland, where he emigrated to after he had lost his father in 1916, and while his wife and one of his three sons had fallen seriously ill. In addition, he himself was under psychiatric treatment. Kinderseele was published in November 1919 in Die deutsche Rundschau under the pen name Emil Sinclair. It then appeared under his name in the anthology Klingsors letzter Sommer in 1920.
It has also given its name to an anthology of Hesse novellas and short stories.