死亡是生命的必然结局,亦是文学的永恒话题。纵观西方文学发展史,死亡一直是文学表现的重要主题之一。对死亡的探寻体现出作家对人类命运的终极关怀。关注死亡是为了更好的关注生存。赫尔曼·黑塞(Hermann Hesse)被誉为“德国浪漫派最后一个骑士”。“死亡主题”贯穿他的整个创作生涯,也是小说主人公生存焦虑的深层根源,黑塞的积极意义还在于,他不仅以死亡呼吁对现世的关怀,同时他的死亡观中还蕴涵着内在的超越精神,不仅 Death is the inevitable result of life, but also the eternal topic of literature. Throughout the history of the development of Western literature, death has always been one of the major themes of literary performance. The search for death reflects the writer’s ultimate concern for the fate of mankind. Attention to death is to better pay attention to survival. Hermann Hesse is known as “the last knight of German romanticism.” “The Theme of Death ” throughout his whole creative life is also the deep root of the anxiety of survival of the protagonist in the novel. The positive significance of Hesse lies in that he not only appeals to death for the care of the present world, but also implies the intrinsic Beyond the spirit, not only