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If I like Herman Hesse, what other authors would I like?

What are other good books for young men?

>> No.8939290

>>8939286
all germanic writers, including hitler

>> No.8939292

>>8939286
no germanic writers, incuding hitler

>> No.8939293

The Sorrows of Young Werther & Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Goethe
All books by Thomas Mann

>> No.8939423

>>8939286
paper towns

>> No.8939506

Nietzsche

>> No.8939511

well OP, you got 1 serious answer. God this board sucks my fucking cunthairs

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8939517

>>8939286

>> No.8939535

>>8939511
I found the feminist boys

>> No.8939550

>>8939293
This

I also think maybe bits of Huxley, but for the deep-down similarity of German Weltanschauung bleeding through the writing, Mann is like a second coming of Goethe and Hesse is like Mann Lite

>> No.8939563

>>8939550
And what would you describe as the themes of Goethe and Mann?

>> No.8939614

>>8939563
There's just a lot of implicit German idealism and dynamical/dialectical/organological way of seeing things that underlies their thinking. Things are the imperfect manifestations of their more real, ideal forms, on a kind of general level but also in ways that structure character motivations and story meanings.

People and things are usually attempting to realise perfect or teleologically adumbrated forms of themselves, and special/fateful people can see those forms. There's a humanist or Promethean "Weltschmerz" underlying it, this subtle attitude that Bildung is not only necessary, and difficult, but is what defines humanness.

1750-1950 German culture reminds me of the Greek Axial Age a lot more than it reminds me of the Russian quest to create/understand the Russian soul between Pushkin and Communism. It's itself a kind of flowering and passing away of a unique ideal. Spengler (also a Goethean more than anything else) was exporting his German world-feeling to a general philosophical anthropology when he said that cultures have a completely unique monadic inner ideal, or Geist, and that it has an organological, dynamical cycle of life.

>> No.8939631

>>8939511
really nigger?
this "serious post" right here >>8939293 is a shorter version of this one >>8939290

>> No.8940243

>>8939423
>>8939506
>>8939535

God what's with the quality of the posts today? Is this a raid?

>> No.8940251

>>8939550
>Hesse is like Mann lite
You're way off, Mann even sucked Hesse's dick constantly and called him a better writer.

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8940305

>>8939286
Try this one

>> No.8940338

C'mon Nietzsche is perfect for a young men, a couple of years ago the only books that i finished were the Zaratustra and the Wolf

>> No.8940368

Grass - The tin drum
Kundera - The joke
Murakami - Kafka on the shore
Gombrowicz - Ferdydurke

>> No.8940439

>>8940305
botchan too I think

>> No.8940494

>>8939286

Chateaubriand