A cikin 1923, Hesse ya sami 'yancin ɗan ƙasa na Switzerland. Ayyukansa na gaba, Kurgast (1925) da The Nuremberg Trip (1927), sun kasance labarun tarihin rayuwa tare da abubuwan ban dariya da kuma littafin Hesse na gaba, Steppenwolf, wanda aka buga a 1927. A cikin shekarar da ya cika shekaru 50, tarihin farko na Hesse ya bayyana, wanda abokinsa Hugo Ball ya rubuta. Ba da daɗewa ba bayan sabon littafinsa mai nasara, ya juya daga kadaici na Steppenwolf kuma ya auri masanin tarihin fasaha Ninon Dolbin, wanda aka haifa Ausländer. Wannan canji zuwa aboki ya kasance a cikin littafin Narcissus da Goldmund, wanda ya bayyana a 1930. A 1931, Hesse ya bar Camuzzi da Ninon suka koma babban gida (Casa Casa) kusa da Hesse Montagnola, wanda aka gina bisa ga burinsa Tambaya: Menene Dolbin ya yi?
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