%0 Journal Article %A Jon Hughes %D 2021 %C Berlin, Germany %I Peter Lang Verlag %J literatur für leser:innen %@ 0343-1657 %N 1 %V 38 %T “Der Fluß des Geschehens”: Time and Experience in Hermann Hesse’s and %R 10.3726/90071_17 %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1157053 %X The idea of “experience”, and the implications thereof for our development as human beings, was of central importance to the literary imagination of Hermann Hesse. This essay will explore the reasons for this, and provide a reading of two of Hesse’s most remarkable texts,