Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse is a great writer, without whom modern literature is unthinkable. Stories of the classic of world literature of the 20th century - in a new translation by Galina Mikhailovna Kosarik, a great master of her profession, who gave the Russian reader the works of Böll, Lenz, Dürrenmatt, Muschg; Mayer, Goethe and other famous German-speaking writers of the past and present.* * *Love stories. Realistic and fantastic. Poetic - and funny. Parody, historical - or, conversely, related in plot to the author’s contemporary reality. Written in a whimsical and complex way - and, on the contrary, admiring the noble simplicity of language and style. The heroes of these stories are men who were overtaken by the most powerful, sharp and unpredictable feeling in the world...