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Rosshalde is probably not as celebrated as some of Hesse’s other works. No one had recommended it to me. I picked it up without any prior “ideas” about it. Maybe that’s why it worked. But really, if you ask me, it worked for me because this one reminded me of his another not-so-celebrated book: Peter Camenzind (which I reviewed quite some time back), which, like James Joyce’s Portrait of the artist as a young man, deals with the “making” of the artist, really, not the craft, but the “mind” behind the craft, as it takes shape. Rosshalde, is like a sequel to that — the mid-life crisis of an artist, who struggles to come to terms with the mundane existence beyond the successful career.
[More at:
https://asuph.wordpress.com/2016/08/06/rosshalde-portrait-of-the-artist-as-not-so-young-man/ ]
[More at:
https://asuph.wordpress.com/2016/08/06/rosshalde-portrait-of-the-artist-as-not-so-young-man/ ]