Prodigy
Hesse, Hermann
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Prodigy
Publisher: Penguin Group (Canada), Toronto, ON, Canada
Publication Date: 1976
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: Reprint Edition
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"Beneath the Wheel (Unterm Rad) is a 1906 novel written by Hermann Hesse. It is also sometimes titled The Prodigy in English. Beneath the Wheel is the story of Hans Giebenrath, a talented boy sent to a seminary in Maulbronn. However his education is focused on increasing his knowledge and neglects his development as a person. His close friendship with Hermann Heilner, who is less hard-working and more liberal than he, is a source of comfort for Hans. In the end, Heilner is expelled from the seminary and Giebenrath is sent home after his performance decreases when he shows symptoms of mental illness. Back home, he finds coping with his situation difficult, as he has lost most of his childhood to scholastic study and thus never had time to form lasting personal relationships with anyone in his village. He is apprenticed as a blacksmith and seems to enjoy the work; it is visceral and concrete, as opposed to the intellectual abstraction of scholarly work. However, he never fully adjusts to his new situation. On a pub crawl in a neighbouring village, he and his colleagues get drunk. Giebenrath leaves the group to walk home early. Later, he is found to have drowned in a river. Beneath the Wheel is one of Hesse's first novels and severely criticizes education that focuses only on students' academic performance. In that respect the novel is typical of Hesse. There are also autobiographical elements in the story, as he attended and was expelled from the seminary described." Wikipedia Translated from the German by W. J. Strachan. Very good orange color pictorial paperback. Light wear. (1976), (1905), 12mo, [4], 5-157pp. [3]. Bookseller Inventory # 022325
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