It means that in his novels he subjects himself to the self-analysis, in order to find his own identity.
Hermann Hesse is famous for being the “author of crisis”. It reflects not only the artistic temperament, but also the process of artistic creativity itself. His correspondence, diaries and poems help him not to be lost in the labyrinth of his own soul. Hesse’s creativity is a journey to his rich inner world, which illustrates the acute contradictions in the role of the modern artist. It is very important to admit, that Hesse was the first writer to be psychoanalyzed. He studied Italian art and medieval legends. The reason of Hesse’s affinity to Romanticism is his interest in the Middle Ages. The leading motives of this novel are the “simple life”, spiritual freedom and closeness to nature. It is identified by the critics as “the lyrical prose”. His first major breakthrough as a writer came with the novel “Peter Camenzind” in 1904. The beginning of Hesse’s literary career is closely connected with German Romanticism it can be noticed in his early “Romantic Poems” (“Romantische Lieder”, 1899). They have become the embodiment of the passions of adolescent crisis and the hunger for a spiritual release in a materialistic world. His novels “Steppenwolf”, “Demian, Siddhartha”,“The Glass Bead Game” have sold in millions. Hermann Hesse’s creativity has explored the duality of nature and individual’s spiritual search, breaking all social rules. “From my thirteenth year on, it was clear to me that I wanted to be either a poet or nothing at all.”
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