Knulp by Herman Hesse Knulp is intelligent and witty and everyone likes him, but he has turned his back on having a career or a home or any of the conventional trappings of success. Instead he travels around, sleeping in fields and visiting friends. Because he’s so happy and charming, he has frien...
This odd little tale is about a witch during WWI, and her surreal effects upon the various charity workers and soldiers she meets. It was written directly after the end of the Great War, which increases the oddity of the style. It is a patchy story, with very little in the way of plot or tension. ...