My favorite author. Demian and Siddhartha and also Steppenwolff have profoundly impacted me and speaking of reflections, Narcissus and Goldmund is my favorite book--I've read it at least three times and will read it again. As synchronicity would have it, just as I was reading your words about Hesse the Amazon Prime van pulled up with my order of his first book, Peter Camenzind. I see you haven't posted in years so I doubt you will ever see this comment but here's a poem I wrote inspired by Hesse's work: https://medium.com/literary-impulse/descortly-poetic-ode-to-the-spiritual-genius-of-hermann-hesse-11799d5833de