The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas.

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Between Lake Constance and India

With the literary fame Hesse married Maria Bernoulli (of the famous family of mathematicians) in 1904 settled down with her in Gaienhofen on Lake Constance and began a family eventually having three sons. His next novel Gertrude publiHermann Hessed in 1910 revealed a production crisis.

His best-known works include Steppenwolf Siddhartha and The Glass Bead Game each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity self-knowledge and spirituality. Hermann Hesse (German: [ˈhɛɐ̯man ˈhɛsə]; July 2 1877 – August 9 1962) was a German-Swiss poet novelist and painter.