Editing Hermann Hesse (section)

=== Later life and death ===
[[File:Hermann Hesse 1946.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Hesse, {{Circa|1946}}]]

In 1931, Hesse left the Casa Camuzzi and moved with Ninon to a larger house, also near Montagnola, which was built for him to use for the rest of his life, by his friend and patron Hans C. Bodmer.<ref name="Mileck 1978" /> In the same year, Hesse married Ninon, and began planning what would become his last major work, ''[[The Glass Bead Game]]'' (a.k.a. ''Magister Ludi'').<ref>{{Cite book|last=Mileck|first=Joseph|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3804203|title=Hermann Hesse : life and art|date=1978|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=0-520-03351-5|location=Berkeley|oclc=3804203|pages=243, 246}}</ref> In 1932, as a preliminary study, he released the novella ''[[Journey to the East]]''.

Hesse observed the rise to power of [[Nazism]] in Germany with concern. In 1933, [[Bertolt Brecht]] and [[Thomas Mann]] made their travels into exile, each aided by Hesse. In this way, Hesse attempted to work against [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]'s suppression of art and literature that protested Nazi ideology. Hesse's third wife was Jewish, and he had publicly expressed his opposition to anti-Semitism long before then.<ref>Galbreath (1974) Robert. "Hermann Hesse and the Politics of Detachment", p. 63, ''Political Theory'', vol. 2, No 1 (Feb 1974).</ref> Hesse was criticized for not condemning the Nazi Party, but his failure to criticize or support any political idea stemmed from his "politics of detachment [...] At no time did he openly condemn (the Nazis), although his detestation of their politics is beyond question."<ref>Galbreath (1974) Robert. "Hermann Hesse and the Politics of Detachment", p. 64, ''Political Theory'', vol. 2, No 1 (Feb 1974)</ref> In March 1933, seven weeks after Hitler took power, Hesse wrote to a correspondent in Germany, "It is the duty of spiritual types to stand alongside the spirit and not to sing along when the people start belting out the patriotic songs their leaders have ordered them to sing." In the 1930s, Hesse made a quiet statement of resistance by reviewing and publicizing the work of banned Jewish authors, including [[Franz Kafka]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/19/hermann-hesses-arrested-development |title=Hermann Hesse's Arrested Development |magazine=The New Yorker |last=Kirsch |first=Adam |date=12 November 2018 |access-date=12 July 2021 }}</ref> In the late 1930s, German journals stopped publishing Hesse's work, and the Nazis eventually banned it.

According to Hesse, he "survived the years of the Hitler regime and the Second World War through the eleven years of work that [he] spent on [''The Glass Bead Game'']".''<ref name="Hesse 1946" />'' Printed in 1943 in Switzerland, this was to be his last novel. He was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1946.

During the last twenty years of his life, Hesse wrote many short stories (chiefly recollections of his childhood) and poems (frequently with nature as their theme). Hesse also wrote ironic essays about his alienation from writing (for instance, the mock autobiographies: ''Life Story Briefly Told'' and ''Aus den Briefwechseln eines Dichters'') and spent much time pursuing his interest in watercolours. Hesse also occupied himself with the steady stream of letters he received as a result of the Nobel Prize and as a new generation of German readers explored his work. In one essay, Hesse reflected wryly on his lifelong failure to acquire a talent for idleness and speculated that his average daily correspondence exceeded 150 pages. He died on 9 August 1962, aged 85, and was buried in the cemetery of Sant’Abbondio in [[Gentilino]], where his friend and biographer [[Hugo Ball]] and another German personality, the conductor [[Bruno Walter]], are also buried.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rr_EaUeiVzkC&q=Sant%27abbondio+cemetery+herman+hesse&pg=PA360|title=Hermann Hesse: Life and Art|last=Mileck|first=Joseph|date=29 January 1981|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-04152-3|location=Berkeley|pages=360|language=en}}</ref>