Peter Kamenzinder
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"Peter Kamenzinde" is a famous work by German writer Hermann Hesse. Peter Camenzinde is a young farm boy from the Swiss mountains. He went to the city to finish college and got involved in the upper class society. Because he could not adapt to urban life, he returned to nature. He reenacts Rousseau's half-daring, half-sentimental defiance. Kamenzinde wrote aesthetic poetry, and after reading Shakespeare, Goethe and Keller, he burned those immature fantasy products. He traveled across mountains and rivers to seek harmony in nature. He studied the history of the Renaissance, advocated the spirit of humanism, followed the footsteps of St. Francis who rescued orphans and the poor, got close to the lower class people, and finally returned to the mountain village.
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