Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: A wannan lokacin, an gabatar da shi zuwa gidan Fräulein von Reutern, abokiyar danginsa. A wajen ya haɗu da mutane tsaransa. Dangantakarsa da takwarorinsa ta kasance "matsala", saboda yawancin su yanzu suna jami'a. Wannan yawanci ya bar shi yana jin kunya a cikin al'amuran zamantakewa. A cikin 1896, waƙarsa "Madonna" ta bayyana a cikin mujallar Vienna kuma Hesse ya fitar da ƙaramin littafin waƙarsa na farko, Waƙoƙin Romantic. A cikin 1897, waƙar da aka buga ta, "Grand Valse", ta jawo masa wasiƙar fan. Helene Voigt ce ta aiko da wasiƙar, shekara ɗaya bayan auren Helene, sai ta auri wani matashi mai shela mai suna Eugen Diederichs. Don faranta wa matarsa rai, Diederichs ya yarda ya buga tarin litattafan Hesse mai suna One Hour After Midnight a 1898 (duk da cewa an rubuta shi a 1899). Duk ayyukan biyu sun kasance rashin cinikin kasuwanci. A cikin shekara biyu, an sayar da kofi 54 ne kawai na littafin nan Romantic Songs da aka buga guda 600, kuma littafin nan One Hour After Midnight an buga guda ɗaya ne kawai kuma ba a sayar da shi sosai ba. Bugu da ƙari, Hesse "ya sha wahala sosai" lokacin da mahaifiyarsa ta ƙi "Waƙoƙin Romantic" a kan cewa sun kasance masu zaman kansu ne har ma "sun kasance masu zunubi". Daga ƙarshen 1899, Hesse ya yi aiki a cikin wani shagon sayar da littattafai na zamani a Basel. Ta hanyar alaƙar dangi, ya zauna tare da iyalai masu ilimi na Basel. A cikin wannan yanayin tare da wadataccen motsawa don burinsa, ya ci gaba da haɓaka ruhaniya da fasaha. A lokaci guda, Basel ya ba da Hesse mai zaman kansa dama da yawa don janyewa cikin rayuwar sirri na binciken kansa na fasaha, tafiye-tafiye da yawo. A cikin 1900, an cire Hesse daga aikin soja na wajibi saboda yanayin ido. Wannan, tare da ciwon jijiya da ciwon kai na kullum, ya shafe shi a dukan rayuwarsa.  Tambaya: Wace kalma ɗaya ce mafi kyau ta bayyana nasarar ko yiwuwar rashin aikin?
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