Blick ins Chaos

By Hermann Hesse

About Blick ins Chaos

Hermann Hesse in his book Blick ins Chaos (1920) collected a number of his essays. See more below.

This webpage directs you to English translations of these essays.

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This website has English translations of three essays from Blick ins Chaos:

German title:
"Die Brüder Karamasow oder Der Untergang Europas"
English titles:
"The Brothers Karamasov or The Downfall of Europe."
"The Brothers Karamasoff or The Downfall of Europe."
Source:
The Dial magazine, New York, volume 72.6 (June 1922) pp. 607-18
Translator:
Stephen Hudson (a pseudonym of Sydney Schiff)
URL of translation:
http://world.std.com/~raparker/exploring/books/hesse_hudson_brothers.html
German title:
"Gedanken uber Dostojewskis Idiot"
English titles:
"Thoughts on Dostoevsky's The Idiot"
"Thoughts on The Idiot of Dostoevsky"
Source:
The Dial magazine, New York, volume 73.2 (August 1922) pp. 199-204.
Translator:
Stephen Hudson (a pseudonym of Sydney Schiff)
URL of translation:
http://world.std.com/~raparker/exploring/books/hesse_hudson_idiot.html
German title:
"Gespräch über die Neutöner"
English titles:
"On Recent German Poetry"
"Talk on New Sounds" (literal translation)
Source:
The Criterion, London, volume 1 (October 1922) pp. 89-93
Translator:
It likely was F.S. Flint (v. "Letter to F.S. Flint dated 13 July 1922," The Letters of T.S. Eliot, Vol. I, pp. 542-3)
URL of translation:
http://world.std.com/~raparker/exploring/books/hesse_criterion_poetry.html

The above essays (the German versions ) were collected into the book Blick ins Chaos:

German title:
Blick ins Chaos
English titles:
Gazing into Chaos
A Glimpse of Chaos
In Sight of Chaos
Description:
A book of collected essays.
URL:
http://world.std.com/~raparker/exploring/books/hesse_glimpse.html

Blick ins Chaos
(A Glimpse into Chaos)
by Hermann Hesse

Hesse's two Dostoevsky essays can be found in their original German in the following paperback book:

Hesse, Hermann. Eine Literaturgeschichte in Rezensionen und Aufsätzen. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main. 1975 (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 252)

This book may also be of interest. It contains another translation of "Die Brüder Karamasow oder Der Untergang Europas."

My Belief by Hermann Hesse.

Edited, and with an introduction, by Theodore Ziolkowski. Translated by Denver Lindley.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
19 Union Square West
New York, NY 10003

Library of Congress catalog card number: 72-84782
ISBN 0-374-21666-5
Published simultaneously in Canada by Doubleday Canada Ltd., Toronto

Another English translation of "Gedanken über Dostojewskis Idiot" (in PDF format) might be found at this URL:

http://www.gss.ucsb.edu/projects/hesse/works/idiot.pdf

The poet T.S. Eliot read Hesse's Blick ins Chaos in German and admired it enough to give it a citation in his own The Waste Land. He was involved in getting it translated into English and republished, the Dostoyevsky essays in The Dial and "On Recent German Poetry" ("Gespräch über die Neutöner") in the first issue of his own magazine, The Criterion.

Information about the relationship between Eliot and Hesse can be found at this URL:

http://world.std.com/~raparker/exploring/tseliot/people/hesse.html