Hesse has been dead for 50 years now…
“Hermann Hesse spent his life searching for truth and inner harmony outside Germany. Yet his quests to the East ultimately led him back to the West and to the realization that the alternatives he found in the East offered no short cut to salvation. To mark the 50th anniversary of his death, Gunnar Decker presents a new biography of the successful author, one which also explains the Orientalism in his work.” >review (c) Qantara.de 2012
delirium clemens 
11 August 2012 at 03:03
As someone who by happenstance then became a linchpin of the Hesse craze of the 60s through 70s in the United States I can’t say that I have any real regrets on that score, even though I am more of a rationalist than Hesse and most of his followers are/ were. I gather from some Hesse specialists with whom I ctd. in touch, Professor Ziolkovsky and Vahlbusch that the new biography is a good one, and I will get to it during the course of the year.