herman hesse

I started reading Hermann Hesse just this year.

But he certainly changed the way I look at things. I read Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, Demian, Beneath the Wheel and Knulp.

Finding yourself is one topic I'm really interesting. So, what do you want to discuss about Hesse?

Hesse Yes, the Glass Bead Game won the Nobel and earned it, In my top five of the greatest novels ever written.....

Siddharta is a great book, I learned a lot from it.
I also like Hesse's poems of which one is my favorite.

I've been meaning to purchase the Glass Bead Game and Narcissus and Goldmund as I've heard they're both great novels.

[edit: I said something that was not true and now it's deleted]

if you enjoy Hesse you might find Par Lagerqvist "The Dwarf" to be equal to anything Hesse wrote (I am a major Hesse fan, at least some of his work) "The Dwarf" also won the Nobel. It is number One on my list followed by Hesse
"Glass Bead Game" as number two.

i love how simple his words come across
but how deep and poetic it is at the same time

his fairy tales are also very interesting

Swift opinion on Hesse.

Read "Demian" when I was 19. I think I was too old for that or that I expected too much. I liked it but it didn't impress me. Siddharta was better, yet still...

Read "Narcissus and Goldmund" when I was 30. I think I was just the right age to do it. Made a lasting impression in my soul.

(dys, the Nobel Prize of Literature is not given to any book in particular, but to a writer's body of works)

yes fbaezer but it's also true that a specific book within an authors career is generally a major factor. For Hesse I believe it was "The Glass Bead Game" just as for Par Lagerqvist "The Dwarf"

In the 1960s many of the books written by Hermann Hesse became cult novels - thus, I had to read them in school as well.
(Preferred - not only at that time - Brecht to him.)

whos brecht

Well, I shouldn't be shocked. Hesse has become a sort of a teenage guru, without context.

This is Brecht (with a capital B):

Bertolt Brecht

The chap, who wrote a couple of lyrics for Weill :wink:

thanks for the info i look forward in exploring this author more in depth