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What do you guys think of Hermann Hesse? Did you read any of his books, and if yes what did you love or hate about his way to write?

>> No.9287093

i read siddhartha and i couldnt understand what his last epiphany was

>> No.9287098

>>9287093
I read it too and couldn't understand any of it cause I don't speak english?

>> No.9287108

>>9287093
In the last part of the book, he just wants to show his friend what he learned, although his friend can't unterstand what he means.

>> No.9287116

>>9287098
How could you read it then ?

>> No.9287134

>>9287083
Read Siddhartha, thought it was okay, made me kind of hate Hesse though cause he shit talked Stefan Zweig (my boy) and then when I gave him the benefit of the doubt and read Sid. it was mediocre.

Anyways, what I liked about Siddhartha was the style, and description(s) of the sultry climate, Hesse did a good job at emoting the tranquil

>> No.9287154

>>9287134
I read steppenwolf and I thought it was great because Hesse wrote about a person being an introvert who experiences new things in different ways. He also describes the illusion of what we see and what we think is true perfectly.

>> No.9287277

>>9287083
Tried reading steppenwolf, it wasn't bad but it didn't manage to captivate me enough to finish it.

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9287323

I just finished Narcissus and Goldmund on Wednesday - it was my first book from Hesse. All in all it is a pretty good read. You really see how much Hesse loves the lifestyle of a free mind and the struggles that come with it. Nonetheless, I expected that both completely different protagonists (the settled intellectual and the artistic vagabond) whould be compared throughout the entire novel, but it focused on Goldmund (the artistic vagabond) almost throughout the whole book.

The pacing was alright, but in some passages would be more psychologized - heh, but maybe I'm too spoiled from Dostoyevsky in this regard.

PS: I've read on this board that it is common among Hesse's works that he usually compares two opposites in his works.

>> No.9287333

>>9287323
*but in some passages, I wish they would be more psychologized