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People; Hesse Relatives Meet in Astonishment in Seoul.

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From: Korea Times (Seoul, Korea)
Date: 20000605
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Referring to Webster's International Encyclopedia, Hermann Hesse is described on the same page in less space than Norwegian ethnologist Thor Heyerdahl who is better known for his oceanic adventure-based book ``Kon-Tiki.'' Yet the German-born poet and novelist has been deeply inscribed as a more popular figure in the minds of learned Koreans who read him in their youth in the '60s and '70s and probably so on today. A retrospective of Hesse's works in letters and watercolors opened at Seoul's Sejong Cultural Center, Thursday. On the eve of the event, it was an occasion to ...

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