Why are all the men in Herman Hesse's books so sensitive?

I didn't find them to be unrealistic. They seems like normal guys.

>>9566836
Hesse was gay. Wait, that was Mann.

people with deep hearts and wide sensibilities are often a bit touchy

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>>9566836
Hesse's early novels were actually pulp fantasy novels about a bespectacled loner named Hermann the Conqueror, who was obviously - and, frankly, rather amateurishly, especially the in-depth erotic tiger-wrestling sequences - based on himself.

They weren't selling well, however, and that was why his publishers suggested that he perhaps write about the more literary and psychoanalytical stuff we know him for today. Probably for the best.

>>9566836
alright but for real no one saw all the weird homoerotic undertones in narcissus and goldmund? i mean holy fuck.

>>9566950
That's in all his novels

>>9566925
I expect he meant emotionally intelligent sensitive, rather than easily offended sensitive.

I'm a sensitive man, therefore it's not unrealistic.

>>9566948
>in-depth erotic tiger-wrestling sequences
would read

>>9567643
Most of the world isn't though.

>>9567751
So?

>>9567763
So? What's realistic about creating characters that only represent a minority of the population?

>>9567788
This is probably the dumbest sentence uttered on this board this year.

are you a commie, or what makes you think that realism was the objective?
not every novel is supposed to be some kind of balzac snapshot of society

>>9567792
You underestimate this board.

I have read siddhartha.

Can you anons also recommend something else by hesse?

>>9567806
Steppenwolf.

>You started with the pleb book

>>9567810
i really liked siddhartha anon. it taught me a lot. and it was written in a manner that i thought was very nice: clean and soft.

>>9567792
You, my friend, have taken the bait.

>>9567813
I didn't mean to say it is bad. Not at all.
It is just the most plebian of his novels.

Now stop posting and read Steppenwolf till Friday

>>9567792
Either you're being baited or this post is in itself meta-bait

>>9567810
Steppenwolf is literally the worst of Hesse.

>>9568473 (you)
effortless bait really.

>>9568473
Klinsgor's last summer