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Anonymous06/19/25, 06:20No.24478496
Thoughts on Hemann Hesse?
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Anon06/19/25, 06:29No.24478511
One of the greatest writers ever, a genius. But people with short attention spans cannot appreciate him.
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Anon06/19/25, 06:31No.24478516
A fucking faggot that started the self-help stupid shit
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Anon06/19/25, 06:36No.24478527
One of my favorite writers and I feel deeply connected to him. No matter what I read I feel that he had a kindred soul. A great mystic and religious man as well who understood the holiness of art.
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Anon06/19/25, 07:01No.24478564
I hated Steppenwolf when I first read it for how it seemed to praise degeneracy but now that I have gained new life experiences I might need to read it again because it might be absolute kino.
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Anon06/19/25, 15:44No.24479346
Steppenwolf is one of the coolest words
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Anon06/19/25, 16:01No.24479376
Hedonistic new age homo with a hard-on for pajeets and chinks. The reason we have a bunch of crystal wearing middle-aged women who listen to sitar music today.
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Anon06/19/25, 16:03No.24479382
I wanted to like him. I started reading Steppenwolf, liked it, but set it aside and forgot about it. I picked it up again a few years later, specifically remembering I liked the first 100 pages, and it was just meh.
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Anon06/19/25, 16:15No.24479402
What's the point in Steppenwolf? Is it literally just "be yourself"?
Harry (the steppenwolf) tries to shut down a part of himself, and it turns him into a half-person. But then a manic pixie girlfriend (probably a norm for the place and time) shows him the way and showers him with her friend's tasty pussy.
He was enlightened.The surreal scenes in the theatre were nice, the overall writing is good, but an I missing something here? A moral lesson, a guide to unlocking my own spirituality, perhaps.
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Anon06/19/25, 16:32No.24479430
It's also sad to see that Steppenwolf is apparently the only book /lit/ knows of him.
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Anon06/19/25, 16:36No.24479439
I liked Siddhartha both times I read it idc what /lit/ says.
Eventually Ill make it through the rest of my Hesse shelf
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Anon06/19/25, 22:31No.24480370
I only tried to read Damian but it was super gay
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Anon06/19/25, 22:44No.24480393
I enjoyed demian and Siddhartha but I thought steppenwolf was shit. Might continue with glass bead game or narcissus and goldmund
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Anon06/20/25, 19:32No.24482593
brb i'll try to find the purpose of my life by clinging to the skirt of the image of my best friend's mother.
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Anon06/20/25, 20:16No.24482741
Is the Glass Bead Game good? Been on my reading list for years.
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Anon06/22/25, 09:30No.24486975
There's hardly anyone to whom Nabokov's line "essentially a writer for very young people" applies so well. He's a great one to read at 16-18, and you'd do well to never reread him. If you do, and have developed some taste in the meantime, you'll be revolted by the sentimentality, the cringeworthy romanticized navelgazing of his protagonists and the proto-hippie rebel attitude. There's a syrupy layer of self-importance over everything, while he would like to pretend to be detached and ironic. But he doesn't have either the personality nor the artistic gifts to pull that off.
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Anon06/22/25, 13:16No.24487232
I will not read anything from Hesse after reading Steppenwolf. HOOOOLYYY COPE what a terrible book.>im smart coz uh... I dont get pussy!
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Anon06/23/25, 07:19No.24489372
Read his essay on Zarathustra.
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Anon06/24/25, 03:19No.24491645
Siddartha is some of the most boring shit i have ever read. Nice prose, regardless.