Strictly speaking, regardless of the genre a work belongs to, one cannot conceive of it as a literary work that is not ultimately the author's own story. While a novel is defined as a plausible, fictional story, it is doubtful whether a fictional novel that unfolds and exists solely on its own, completely unrelated to the author, is truly possible. In this sense, Hermann Hesse's works are so intertwined with the author that it is strange to call them pure fiction. In Hesse's works, the subject