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#(puts orv goggles on) the relationship between and the nature of writer and protagonist
aroacehanzawa
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Top 3 (or 5 or 10, this is a difficult choice) fave Hermann Hesse works? 👀
Ohhhh good question
I have read 5 of his books so i will rank all 5 👍
Beneath the Wheel
Demian
Journey to the East
Narcissus and Goldmund
Siddhartha
#i finished journey to the east and i went into it completely blind and
#it's a short one but when i finished it i had to rotate the whole thing in my head until i fell asleep
#first of all the blend of reality and fantasy as well as past and present is really fascinating and kind of trippy
#and it's not just a blend of time but also of places and settings. and then it will randomly drop you back into early 20th century germany
#in a very jarring way like it all feels like some kind of fever dream
#the narrator is also UNRELIABLE 🔥🔥🔥🔥 or maybe he doesn't even know it himself
#but the reveal at the end really recontextualises everything in an interesting way
#and the very ending was also really thought provoking to me
#and underneath it all i felt like the core message of the book was how you have to put active effort into finding joy and wonder in life
#and how easily you can become disillusioned and also how easily it is to feel like everyone else abandons you if you're actually the one
#who gets disillusioned and distances yourself from others
#and then at the very end you get a very meta treat on what it means to be a creator and creation. or perhaps
#(puts orv goggles on) the relationship between and the nature of writer and protagonist
#hesseposting
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