Dr. Faustus

>>8468240
Don't read this shit. There are better german Authors

>>8468240
>Is Goethe's Faust a mandatory reading before this?
Goethe's Faust is mandatory reading in any case.

>>8468246
such as?

>>8468246
hahaha nice try Berthold, you're epic theatre will never be relevant again.

>>8468300
This.

>>8468374
Hesse

no, you don't have to read goethe's faust at all
it helps to be familiar with classical music though

>>8468387
Literaly that guy is better in every way. Gallileo me lmao

You need to read Foust either way

>>8468300
this

the references are largely thematic and oriented around part 1.

>>8468240
Mann's Faust is one of the GOATs. Ignore this >>8468246 faggot he obviously hasn't read a book in his life.

>>8469438
Hesse is great but when someone points him out as the best German author you know they've got taste, he's literally the easiest author of high literature to read there is

>>8469558
Go fuck yourself, motherfucker! I hope you get Cancer!!!!

>>8469567
*no taste

>>8469572
CAAAAAAAAAAANCER!!!!!!

>>8469567
i love mann and hesse and to say hesse is easy is insane. it probably means you read siddhartha and steppenwolf and assumed his early work is representative of his oeuvre

>>8469567
>it's easy so it's bad

>>8468374
Fallada.

>>8468374
Benno Von Archimboldi

Mann is God tier.

>>8469567
readability doesn't equal intellectual vapidity

>>8469622
Hesse's full of interesting philosophical influences but his prose and narrative style are concise and clear. That's a part of his acclaim to here in Germany. Compared to Mann, his books are a breeze to read. I've said nothing about depth though.
>>8470984
I literally said Hesse is great but to a German it's like saying Salinger was the best American author. They're great but it points to a lack of knowledge.

>>8471202
they're actually nothing alike (salinger and hesse) and im pretty sure you dont actually know anything about german literature (nor american literature)

stop backtracking. you obviously tried to do the "look at me im so smart if its readable it's bad" bullshit that pseuds like to put forth on /lit/

consider suicide

>>8471210
>calling someone a pseud in a discussion on Hermann Hesse
Man, every second teenager has read Siddharta, there's no intellectual superiority to be found. That's the unmissable similarity, by the way. Also, being this triggered while not knowing your shit is pretty embarrassing. You didn't say Musil, Schmidt, Büchner or Celan, you said fucking Hermann Hesse, every baby's first choice and then proceeded to act like a smug asshole about it. Embarassing.

>>8471225
if you read hesse further than his meme works you would know that he towers high in intellectual stature.

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>>8471253
You're talking about The Glass Bead Game, aren't you? Why do you think that has anything to do with my point of Hesse being a very digestible and readable stylist? And why do you feel the need to bring up the point that his most renowned works are somehow not a good example? I have nothing against Hesse but bringing him up as your only choice in German literature is an obvious choice, a novice's choice and doesn't make it seem like you understand German literature circles.

>>8471260
translation: i haven't read anything besides the wikipedia summary of siddhartha but i'm gonna shitpost on /lit/ anyway

>>8471225
nigga i wasnt even the one who said hesse i just walked into this thread and saw you act like a textbook pseud

>>8471273
What is wrong with you?

>>8468374
Jean Paul (!)
Arno Schmidt
Christoph Martin Wieland