/lit/ - Literature

Hesse is amazing, just got done reading Siddhartha, changed my perspective on life and my priorities

>>6387481
>this one dimensional view of women
but it's right

I read Siddhartha and Steppenwolf. Is Narcissus and Goldmund a good next step?

> Does the whole book revolve around the madonna/whore complex? Does it go beyond that? Because I get a little annoyed at this one dimensional view of women.

Protip: calling this the madonna/whore complex is projecting a prefabricated one-dimensional view of women on Hesse.

For the same reason, most people who point at implicit misogyny in famous books are often closeted misogynists themselves.

>>6387850
Since when was Hesse woman enough to be right about them?

>>6387892

including the women?

>>6387481
>one dimensional view of women.
>implying women aren't just manifestations of male guilt

>>6387962
why couldn't a woman be a misoginist? that's like saying that nerds can't hate other nerds and 4chan is a testament to how common that is you fucking nerd

>>6387962
Of course. My mother was raised in Morocco, a country in which not so long ago (and perhaps to this day) considered that women were only fit for housework. And guess who raises children in Morocco, and who tells them the women are there to serve the men ? Protip: it's not the macho bear-sporting males.

Not that was I described above is not technically misoginy, but it often overlaps with it.

>>6387882

Probably, though you might like Demian better.