Unterm Rad

About “Unterm Rad”

Beneath the Wheel is a 1906 novel by Hermann Hesse, a severe criticism of academic education that ignores students' personal development, typical of Hesse's work. A Peter Owen Publishers translation was published in 1957 as The Prodigy, and Farrar, Straus & Giroux published an English translation by Michael Roloff as Beneath the Wheel in 1968. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)