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I love 'Siddhartha' by Herman Hesse. Short, poetic, and deep. Steppenwolf...
Also Narcis und Goldmund

q::Anything like this

>Beneath the Wheel
>Siddhartha
>Steppenwolf
>Narcissus and Goldmund
>The Glass Bead Game

Confirmed for god-tier author

>>1282391
He wants books set in medieval Europe. That's why he mentions Narcissus and Goldmund.

This is one of the few books I've read that I can genuinely say had a life-changing effect on me. Most "serious" scholars favor Mann's writing to Hesse's - and I count "Death in Venice" among those books I would credit as life-changing - but there is something very honest and touching about Hesse's preoccupations with spirituality and the self. In particular, I think the Treatise of the Steppenwolf and the final sequence in the Magic Theatre are brilliant bits of writing and hold up to any critical assessment.

I'm guessing you're under the age of 25, OP, because Hesse's writing resonates so strongly with the young. I don't mean that as an insult at all - in fact, I think it's sad that Hesse has a reputation for being "only" a young man's writer. It's ironic that most of the books that gained him this reputation were books he wrote late in his life.

I'd recommend "The Glass Bead Game" if you haven't already read it.

This is one of the few books I've read that I can genuinely say had a life-changing effect on me. Most "serious" scholars favor Mann's writing to Hesse's - and I count "Death in Venice" among those books I would credit as life-changing - but there is something very honest and touching about Hesse's preoccupations with spirituality and the self. In particular, I think the Treatise of the Steppenwolf and the final sequence in the Magic Theatre are brilliant bits of writing and hold up to any critical assessment.

I'm guessing you're under the age of 25, OP, because Hesse's writing resonates so strongly with the young. I don't mean that as an insult at all - in fact, I think it's sad that Hesse's work has a reputation for being "only" a young man's writer. It's ironic that most of the books that gained him this reputation were books he wrote late in his life.

I'd recommend "The Glass Bead Game" if you haven't already read it.