Description: This volume gathers the most alluring stories, recollections, contemplations and poems on butterflies by Herman Hesse.
Brief description:
ELISABETH LAUFFER is the translator of more than twenty books from German. She is the recipient of numerous honors including the Gutekunst Prize and KulturKontakt Artist-in-Residency, as well as holding a master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Review Quotes: A lovely small book...assembles Hesse's lepidopteran "reflections, tales and verse," including an extract from the novel "Demian." Translated by Elisabeth Lauffer, the selections were chosen by the world's foremost Hesse authority, Volker Michels, who also contributes an interpretive afterword, while the little book itself is further enhanced with dozens of Jakob Hubner's 18th-century engravings of these flowerlike insects. If you celebrate Christmas in July, this will make an ideal stocking stuffer!--Michael Dirda "The Washington Post" (6/22/2023 12:00:00 AM)