FARRAR STRAUS&GIROUX., NEW YORK., 1969. Book Condition: NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: NEAR FINE. First Edition. CLEAN TIGHT COPY IN BRIGHT CRISP, UNCLIPPED DUSTJACKET.

Hesse's third novel, Gertrude, was originally published in 1910; this is its first American publication. His theme is the sources of creativity, and the novel reflects Hesse's lifelong interest in music. Told in the form of a memoir of the composer Kuhn, not an autobiography of an artist but a novel about that calamity of the spirit usually called " the creative process. " 

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