“Peter Camenzind” is one of the earliest stories by Hermann Hesse. And although in this work, realistic in form, the young Hesse is just beginning to feel his own author’s style, it in many ways became key for all of his further work. This story tells about the “years of wandering and learning” of the main character, the peasant boy Peter Kamenzind. Youth, study, first love and true friendship, the search for oneself and a better life, the first bitter disappointments and the gradual acquisition of life experience, mental tossing, travel and the very first, still timid steps in art - this is what makes up the content of this very lyrical, partly autobiographical story.