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What does /lit/ think of Hermann Hesse? I just read Siddhartha and I loved it. What are some other works by him that are good?
What I liked is that it was short and not pretentious, while also being very intellectual and written beautifully in only ~150 pages. Other authors like DFW or Pynchon would have taken the same story and made it over 1,000 pages. This was especially a relief because I just finished Infinite Jest before reading this.
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>>8370596
define pretentious
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You know how some food starts to disgust you if it just happens you get sick soon after? Like eating a can of sardines and then getting the norovirus. I haven't eaten sardines for years. Nor have I read Hesse since I was 16. Rosshalde is a nice piece though. A sort of book where one looks back at his failures. Like "A Little Cloud" by Joyce or maybe some Turgenev story. Or Wild Strawberries, but not as good as any of these.
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>>8370599
Is English not your first language?
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My fav author desu
Maybe it helps that I´m german but his prose is so fluent, it´s such a joy to read his works
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id recommend reading steppenwolf next. If youre interested in the whole eastern spirituality thing then you could check out the gita, or other obscure indian texts. Hesse is definitely one of my favorites
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>>8370730
define pretentious
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>>8370813
>pretentious
What do you mean by this.
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>>8370710
brilliant
yeah i only read siddharta. fun book.
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>>8370596
Damien
The Glass Bead Game
Narcissus and Goldmund
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>>8370596
The Glass Bead Game is my favorite of his. I've read Demian, got turned off Siddhartha, and think Steppenwolf was just okay.
But The Glass Bead Game is his magnum opus.
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>>8370596
tanning gone wrong holy shit
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>>8370926
Eh, it's his Magnum Bore too
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>>8370926
>Steppenwolf was just okay
>The Glass Bead Game is his magnum opus
This has to be autism
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>>8370596
If you're looking for short and concise then herman hesse is the wrong guy buddy.
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Glass bead game, as has been said above, is his masterpiece.
Journey to the East is also fantastic. Even shorter than Siddhartha. You'll read it in one sitting. But it sticks with you.
I quite enjoyed Narcissisus and Goldmund. It gets a bit gay.
After you read a few of Hesse's books you begin to see a pattern.
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>>8371088
>I quite enjoyed Narcissisus and Goldmund. It gets a bit gay.
Only Narziss was homosex
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>>8370596
>that pic
sorry, I don't read african-american literature. Life's too short for that.
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