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Anonymous Thu Sep 11 23:55:02 2014 No.5420817 [Reply] [Original]

What does /lit/ think of Hermann Hesse?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 11 23:57:49 2014 No.5420827 >>5420817 Kind of author you want to like, then you read his books and fall asleep.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 11 23:59:37 2014 No.5420832 >>5420827 >you Speak for yourself. He's fascinating.

>>	Anonymous Namefag Fri Sep 12 00:02:05 2014 No.5420838 2tan

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 00:09:04 2014 No.5420856 >>5420817 I started on Steppenwolf the other day, however I found the character to hit a little too close to home for enjoyable reading. It kinda just made me feel pathetic. So, I stopped. I'll probably pick it up again when I'm not in such a mood

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 00:12:48 2014 No.5420872 >>5420856 the beginning is not as good as the middle, the end is like wtf...okeeee

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 00:17:21 2014 No.5420885 Nazi

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 00:25:32 2014 No.5420907 >>5420872 I'm sure it's quite good. But it's an odd feeling when it seems someone has inserted you into their book. It all makes me feel like an angsty little teeny bopper with purple hair parted to the side.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 00:26:36 2014 No.5420911 >>5420832 >He's fascinating. Yep, he is. But his books are boring and dull as fuck.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 00:32:23 2014 No.5420925 >>5420911 pleb as fuck

Anonymous Fri Sep 12 00:39:10 2014 No.5420951

Got my first toes in the water with Eastern mysticism through him. Was 16 or 17 reading Siddhartha, reading about OM - I remember thinking,

"What the fuck is he going on about?",

yet, I was having somatic reactions to reading about it without intellectual grasping any of it.

I like to call him Eastern-Lite, or Diet Orientalism. It's a good introduction, but obviously it's through a filtered lens, not necessarily a bad thing, though.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 00:47:11 2014 No.5420978 >>5420817 Demian was his best, and they are all basically the same.

Anonymous Fri Sep 12 02:43:54 2014 No.5421204

>>5420856
>I found the character to hit a little too close to home for enjoyable reading.
Well then you're exactly the type of person who should read Steppenwolf. The ending was designed for you, to try to make you grow as a person. I don't think people who don't identify with the main character will get much out of it, at least I didn't. The lessons all seemed ridiculously obvious.

The Glass Bead Game was interesting in theory, and a complete boring slog in practice.

Anonymous Fri Sep 12 03:46:22 2014 No.5421293

I love him. Steppenwolf is one of my favorite books. Tried Siddharta, but couldn't get into it the first time, i'll retry soon. Currently reading Narcisse and Goldmund, which is interesting. The Glass Beading Game seems interesting, but i'm kinda afraid of getting into a huge book like that. Like Ulysses of James Joyce.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 12:30:25 2014 No.5422755 I read Siddhartha two times, and I'm sure I'll read it again. Planning on getting Steppenwolf

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 12:35:33 2014 No.5422771 Hesse is great.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 12:39:48 2014 No.5422775 Best black author imo

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 12:39:58 2014 No.5422776 >>5420817 Read Narziss und Goldmund when I was 15, fapped to the passage where Goldmund fucks the two teenage sisters.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 12:53:40 2014 No.5422805 Demian made me get interested in philosophy when i was a child

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 12:55:53 2014 No.5422810 >>5420907 maybe that's the point and might be good for you and your personal development.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 12:56:56 2014 No.5422817 >>5420951 man fuck off already

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 13:13:33 2014 No.5422861 He's pretty good. I've only read Siddharta, Demian and Steppenwolf. His sense of beauty and spiritual sensibility are a bit less than astounding and his books are enjoyable reads overall. For me, he's the perfect YA writer.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 14:51:07 2014 No.5423262 >>5422810 nah

Anonymous Fri Sep 12 19:55:15 2014 No.5424548

Narziss und Goldmund made my heart warmer and crystalized some of my thoughts. Steppenwolf was nice too, I liked how it grew weirder to go full retard. Like taking acid and being overflowed with all your sensations, feeling extreme horrors and pleasures and being serene with lots of possibilities after whole experience. I found Hesse's writings quite significant and appealing.

Anonymous Fri Sep 12 21:52:14 2014 No.5425063

>>5420907
>It all makes me feel like an angsty little teeny bopper with purple hair parted to the side.
I would've loved reading his stuff in high school, they were better reads then most of the required books. There must be some schools where something like Demian or Steppenwolf is in the curriculum.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 21:55:46 2014 No.5425078 >>5420817 He looks like a tan motherfucker

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 22:04:29 2014 No.5425129 I'm a senior in high school (18), we can choose to read Siddhartha to study in class.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 13 07:05:32 2014 No.5426574 He's a nigger? trashman.jpeg

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 13 07:07:12 2014 No.5426577 >>5420817 his writing's a messe

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