Articles on books of the MoneyMuseum.

The novel did not make much of an impact after its publication in the late 1920s. Until it was rediscovered in the 1960s and became the Bible of the hippie movement. How Hesse distilled the spirit of an entire generation into one book.

Once upon a time, there lived two brothers by the name of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. They set out to collect all the fairytales the people up and down the country would tell them. After all, it would be a shame if they were lost because no one had bothered to write them down…

As a child, you can hardly wait to be a grown-up. Owning your own money, eating as many sweets as you want and staying up late! And what do grown-ups dream of? Their childhood of course. To escape from their boring everyday lives, back to a childish fantasy world, without work or duties…

Good literature can create new mental images in your mind and connect things that you have never seen in connection before. Imagine this, for instance: Money is like language. And language is like money. Intrigued? Then read on…

Can we really ever start over in life? Invent ourselves anew? Or will our past, our mistakes, our failure always be with us? These are the questions Max Frisch asks in „I’m Not Stiller”- a novel that will make him world famous.