Reviews for Beneath the Wheel

The average rating for Beneath the Wheel based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-07-21 00:00:00 STEVEN KIKER Vintage Hesse! Sad story about an ambitious boy who slowly breaks down when facing the pressure of the adult world. While showing the catastrophic effects of a rigid educational system and of excessive parental expectations, it also hints at the responsibility of the young to get to grips with life and not just give up and drift along. As important and relevant now as when it was written!

Review # 2 was written on 2019-08-15 00:00:00 Duncan Knight Unterm Rad = Beneath the Wheel, Hermann Hesse Beneath the Wheel is the story of Hans Giebenrath, a talented boy sent to a seminary in Maulbronn. His education is focused completely on increasing his knowledge, and neglects personal development. **Spoiler Alert** His close friendship with Hermann Heilner, a less academically assiduous and more liberal fellow student, is a source of comfort for Hans. Heilner is expelled from the seminary, and Giebenrath is sent home after his academic performance decreases in tandem with the onset of symptoms of mental illness. Back home, he finds coping with his situation difficult, having lost most of his childhood to scholastic study, and thus having never formed lasting personal relationships with anyone in his village. He is apprenticed as a blacksmith, and seems to find satisfaction in the work; it is visceral and concrete, as opposed to the intellectual abstraction of scholarly pursuit. Despite some personal fulfillment in his existence, Hans never fully adjusts to his new situation. On a pub crawl in a neighbouring village, he and his colleagues get drunk. Giebenrath leaves the group to walk home early. Later, ... "A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginning and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life, that will never be a genuine tree." تاریخ نخستسن خوانش: سال 1990میلادی عنوان: اعجوبه؛ نویسنده: هرمان هسه؛ مترجم: مینا بیگلری؛ ت‍ه‍ران‌: اس‍پ‍رک‌‏‫‬، 1367؛ در 241ص؛ موضوع داستانهای نویسندگان آلمانی تبار سوئیسی - سده 20م هرمان هسه در این رمان، داستان پسربچه‌ ای باهوش را، بازگو می‌کند، که ذوق و استعدادش توسط مربیان، معلمان و مادر و پدرش، نادیده گرفته می‌شود.؛ این اثر حاوی انتقاداتی نسبت به شیوه‌ های تربیتی و تعلیمی در مدارس و خانواده‌ ها است؛ و برخی از منتقدان، به علت شباهت‌های شخصیت داستان، با زندگی «هسه» در کودکی، این کتاب را نوعی «زندگی‌نامه خودنوشت» دانسته ‌اند تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 24/08/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی