Herman Hesse remained clear-sighted and consistent in his political views and his passionate espousal of pacifism and the bloody absurdity of war from the start of World War I to the end of his life. He wrote the earliest essay in this book in September 1914, before he cemented his fame with the novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, and continued writing a stream of letters, essays and pamphlets throughout the war. In his native Germany his views earned him the labels 'traitor' and 'viper', but after World War II he was moved to reiterate his beliefs in another series of essays and letters.
If The War Goes On . . . resonates as strong today as it did when originally published and begs the question: have our politicians learnt nothing in the last seventy years?
- ISBN10 0374174261
- ISBN13 9780374174262
- Publish Date 1 January 1971
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 May 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar Straus Giroux
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 185
- Language English