Butterflies: Reflection, Tales, and Verse

By Hermann Hesse
Translated by Elisabeth Lauffer
Illustrated by Jakob Hübner

"A charming book for nature and literature lovers...leaving audiences feeling as lucky to encounter it as Hesse felt about meeting his winged subjects."
―Foreword Reviews

This volume gathers the most alluring stories, recollections, contemplations and poems on butterflies by Herman Hesse. 

"I have always had a connection with butterflies and other fleeting and ephemeral beauties, while I have never succeeded in maintaining permanent, committed and so-called solid relationships," writes Hermann Hesse in a letter from 1926. This preference, occasionally resembling an elective affinity, for "flowers and butterflies, that are of everlasting things, a fleeting allegory" – as he says in one of his poems, has left its mark on Hesse’s entire oeuvre.

Hardcover
136 pages | 110 full-color engraved copper illustrations 
Kales Press, 2023
5.3 x 0.7 x 7.3 inches
ISBN 9798985955859     
Anthology, Nature Writing