Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Kupfuura: Panguva iyo Hesse akadzokera kuupenyu hwavanhu muna 1919, roorano yake yakanga yaputsika. Mudzimai wake aiva nechirwere chepfungwa chakakomba, asi, kunyange pashure pokupora kwake, Hesse haana kuona ramangwana rinobvira naye. Musha wavo muBern wakakamurwa, vana vavo vakagariswa mupenjeni nehama, uye Hesse akagarazve ari oga pakati paApril muTicino. Akagara muimba duku yepurazi pedyo neMinusio (pedyo neLocarno), achigara kubva musi wa25 Kubvumbi kusvika 11 Chivabvu muSorengo. Musi waMay 11, akatamira kuguta reMontagnola ndokurenda makamuri mana maduku muchivako chakafanana nenhare, Casa Camuzzi. Ikoko, akaongorora zvirongwa zvake zvekunyora zvakanyanya; akatanga kupenda, chiitiko chakaratidzwa munyaya yake huru inotevera, "Klingsor's Last Summer", yakabudiswa muna 1920. Uku kutanga kutsva munzvimbo dzakasiyana kwakamuunzira mufaro, uye Hesse gare gare akadana gore rake rokutanga muTicino kuti "nguva yakazara zvikurusa, inobereka zvikurusa, inobudirira zvikurusa uye inodisa zvikurusa youpenyu hwangu". Muna 1922, Hesse akabudisa rondedzero inonzi Siddhartha, iyo yakaratidza kuda kwaaiita tsika dzechiIndia uye uzivi hwechiBuddha hwaakanga atova nahwo kare muupenyu hwake. Muna 1924, Hesse akaroora muimbi Ruth Wenger, mwanasikana wemunyori weSwitzerland Lisa Wenger uye tete vaMéret Oppenheim. Zvisinei, roorano iyi haina kutongowana kugadzikana kupi nokupi.  Mubvunzo: Hesse akadzokera kuupenyu hwevanhuwo zvavo mugore ripi?
Muna 1919