"Within and Without" by Herman Hesse (1920, 9 pages) When I saw
that Lizzy's Literary Life was having a November event devoted
to reading and posting on German literature I knew I wanted to
participate. Today I am posting on short stories by two of the
Greatest German writers of the 20th century, Thomas Mann and
Hermann Hesse. On November 5, I read "Germelshausen" by
Friedrich Gerstacker (1816 to 1872-Hamburg, Germany). It is a
very interesting fun to read short story from which the plot of
Brigadoon was lifted. Gerstacker is a minor writer, pretty much
forgotten but for this one story. Thomas Mann (1875 to 1955) and
Hermann Hesse (1877 to 1962), both Nobel Prize winners, are
towering cultural icons best known for novels but both wrote a
number of well regarded short stories. I will just post briefly
on the two stories so readers can get an idea of them. Thomas
Mann (there is additional information on my post on his most
famous work, The Magic Mountain) won the Nobel Prize in 1929.
Mann fled Germany in 1933 w