Hero's Quest for the Self

David G. Richards is Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at the State University of New York in Buffalo. He is the author of Georg Buchner and the Birth of the Modern Drama, named "Outstanding Academic Book of 1977" by Choice.

The book concludes with a selected bibliography and a very useful index. Although it contains a fair amount of Jungian terminology, the book reads well, and it would be useful to upper-division undergraduates. CHOICE It is well written, lucid in style, and it sheds new light on the coplex interrelationship between literature and psychology. The German Quarterly ...provides a very thorough and detailed analysis of Hesse's first successful novel... Journal Of European Studies Xviii ...provides a very thorough and detailed analysis of Hesse's first successful novel... Journal Of European Studies Xviii The book concludes with a selected bibliography and a very useful index. Although it contains a fair amount of Jungian terminology, the book reads well, and it would be useful to upper-division undergraduates. CHOICE It is well written, lucid in style, and it sheds new light on the coplex interrelationship between literature and psychology. The German Quarterly