Comments | mordicai: Curia, Church & Castilia. (104)

mordicai

Curia, Church & Castilia. (104)

Dec 22, 2010 11:24

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books, haiku, hesse

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fordmadoxfraud December 22 2010, 17:08:09 UTC

To be fair, the Nobel is not awarded for particular, individual works, but for a body of work.

mordicai December 22 2010, 17:15:57 UTC

Sure, but we all know that is a lie; they always do a wink aside when giving it. Glass Bead Game, for instance, was particularly mentioned.

kingtycoon December 23 2010, 08:01:51 UTC

But it's unbelievably worse than like any other Hesse book.

To me this book always refers to the Magic Mountain - I read both of those at maybe even the exact same time, and the just oppressive feelings that came out from both were too much.

I can't think of a Hesse book that has a lot of girls in it, maybe none of them have any girls, that might be so. Narcissus and Goldmund, if you ask me, is the strongest, you might really be helped by Demian - which book I usually give to a girl on her birthday.

mordicai December 23 2010, 13:14:20 UTC

I always assumed Siddhartha is the WORST, I guess? You like Steppenwolf?

It is funny you say that, since the previous Magister Ludi, Thomas van der Trave, is a Thomas Mann pastiche.

I didn't know you were a fan of Hesse. I really mean to read Magic Mountain, but then, I also really mean to read The Man Who Laughs & I haven't yet.