/lit/ - Literature

>>18015395
Try to read
Autobiographical Writings
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2174837.Autobiographical_Writings
especially
"Notes on a Cure in Baden"
There, about the attempts of old man Hesse to fight off another obsessed "Reader".
He wrote many of his books, including The Bead Game, for psychotherapy purposes, he himself admitted this in his letters. This therapy is through creativity. Demian was written to ward off the shock of the First World War.

In general, if you wrote your post personally to Hesse (as many readers constantly wrote to him), he would only answer you with his sad smile and silent sympathy.