Mit der Reife wird man immer jünger

Hermann Hesse is one of the authors who had the fortune of experiencing and depicting all stages of life in a characteristic way. Among the most beautiful of these portrayals are his reflections on old age, on those years of life where reality and environment acquire a playful surrealism, where the memory of the past gains more reality in relation to the present. This time of transition reactivates, as a counterbalance to the growing physical ailments, the treasure of images one carries in memory after a long life, and to which one turns with a completely different engagement as activity wanes. Human figures who are no longer on earth continue to live within us, keeping us company and looking at us with living eyes.