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Just finished reading Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha for the first time, /lit/.

Hold me.

>> No.3880182

It's next on my list, OP.

Am I gonna feel feels?

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>>3880182

I think you'll get frustrated at some moments not only because Hesse gets redundant as fuck, but because of the course the narrative takes.

But overall, the book humbles you like nothing else, you may just find yourself mentally exhausted at the end.

>> No.3880212

This book reminds of The Stranger in many ways. Both are deceptively simple and short, concerning the individuals search for meaning and understanding. They go about this search in different ways, but - arguably- the conclusions to which they come are not that dissimilar.

A good read; I'd hold you if I could, friend.

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>>3880212
Yes yes I got the same idea as well while I was reading Siddhartha. I read The Stranger a year ago, and if I didn't have such a long "to read" list, I would revisit it.

>> No.3880289

>>3880182
Depends... How do you feel about rivers?

>> No.3880315

What's the point of this book, please?

>> No.3880668

>>3880315
Everything is one thing

>> No.3880704

>>3880202
Seriously? How simple could you possibly be if this book mentally exhausts you? Its eastern philosophy distilled down to something so offensively simple a child can easily grasp it.

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>> No.3880738

I just came here to say I finished it and I saw this thread. bretty gud/10
For his other books, are there english translations you recommend?

>> No.3880749

>Not reading Siddhartha in it's original Hindu language.

PLEBS!

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>>3880749
>Hindu
>language

Also
>original language
>not German

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>>3880704
I am dog

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>> No.3880811

>>3880202
How the fuck is it mentally exhausting? It's a good read and has some nice snippets of philosophy in it, but it's not that intense. If anything, I found it kinda disappointingly simple compared to his later work in Steppenwolf and Narcissus and Goldmund, which I had read prior.

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>>3880811
I would like to read steppenwolf

>> No.3880841

>>3880835
You should. It's a change of pace from. Siddhartha, but not a bad one. Narcissus and Goldmund is much similar to Siddhartha, to the point where it almost feels like an improved remake (though without the explicitly oriental philosophy)

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>>3880841
You see I read Siddhartha first because it was the only Hesse novel in the /lit/ starter kit list. Should I read Narcissus and Goldmund first or Steppenwolf?

>> No.3880870

does which translation i read matter that much?

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>>3880870
I felt the Joachim Neugroschel was a good translation. Pretty clear.

>> No.3881030

>>3880865
Steppenwolf is the best one.

>> No.3881043

Was Siddhartha supposed to be sad?

>> No.3881084

I loved Siddharta, but I found Steppenwolf to be a much more complete and satisfying novel, and one that I felt I could "connect" to a bit more, though that might sound a bit cliché.
Narcissus and Goldmund, Demian, and Journey to the East are also all gold; pretty much anything Hesse wrote from around the time of Demian on is great. Some of his earlier stuff is pretty good, but nothing compared to the others. I still need to read the Glass Bead Game though. Has anyone here read it? Apparently it's his magnum opus.

>> No.3881105

>>3880202
You're talking about Steppenwolf, it starts depressive but then it gets batshit hermetic. Damien's ending on steroids.

>> No.3881695

>>3881043
No. The man's enlightened, that's not sad at all.

>> No.3882704

> not realizing The Glass Bead Game is his best work

stay pleb

>> No.3882956

>>3881105
loved demian's ending.

siddhartha was great. simple delivery on big ideas.