Beneath the Wheel: A NovelIn Hermann Hesse's Beneath the Wheel or The Prodigy, Hans Giebenrath lives among the dull and respectable townsfolk of a sleepy Black Forest village. When he is discovered to be an exceptionally gifted student, the entire community presses him onto a path of serious scholarship. Hans dutifully follows the regimen of tireless study and endless examinations, his success rewarded only with more crushing assignments. When Hans befriends a rebellious young poet, he begins to imagine other possibilities outside the narrowly circumscribed world of the academy. Finally sent home after a nervous breakdown, Hans is revived by nature and romance, and vows never to return to the gray conformity of the academic system. |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 32 |
Section 3 | 56 |
Section 4 | 91 |
Section 5 | 120 |
Section 6 | 141 |
Section 7 | 164 |
Section 8 | 184 |
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