Hermann Hesse - What do you think about him?

[anarhosocijalist]

Tell me what do you think about him. Did you red some of his novels? And what do you think about his rejection of ideology, is it possible to fight for the better world( socialism, other ideologies), and to live his filosophy of finding your own spiritual path.

[anarhosocijalist]

Gues no other left wing revolutinary reads Hesse.

[peaccenicked]

read steppen wolf way back in my late teens.
yeah it was ok, The truth is I cant remember much it do not make an impression me. Do you reccomend a reread?

[IzmSchism]

hesse is one of my favorites. i don't know how, but his shit hits me hard, like he can just express what is inside in my head, I would recommend any of his novels...
-Siddharta
- Steppenwolf
- the glass bead game
- demian

[anarhosocijalist]

I sincerely recomend it to you. Hesse is one of my favourite writers. Aldo he rejects socialism, revolution and other types of ideologies.
He said in Steppenwolf: "Bolshevizm is violence against human nature.". I think he repeats this thought at one place in Demian.

[abstractmentality]

i have read siddhartha twice, and read half Narcissus and Goldmund, which was interupted by a book i had to read in class. the first time i read it, i thought of it as a decent book. then i read the Tao Te Ching, and re-read Siddhartha, and saw so much more. That book has so much in it, i know that i have missed so much.

[anarhosocijalist]

Siddhartha is a pretty good book. Maybe I reread it for one more time. But can a person be socialist revolutinary and practise Hesse s philosopy? That is a question of all. And if one cant in what to bealive in, and what to do? What do you think ??

[abstractmentality]

from what i have read of Hesse, i do not think that he has a defined philosophy, but rather explores the different religions and thought of the world. From what i remember about siddhartha, i think it would be dificult being a socialist revolutionary and follow what he says in siddhartha. i say this in a generalized statement because i dont remember that book that well and can not site specific information or situations or phhilosophy.

[man in the red suit]

I read demian. Wow, I don't understand what herman's point is in that book. I only see that sinclair was a drug adict, religious fanatic or something.
I don't really understand his philosophies. But the book was interesting none the less.

(Edited by man in the red suit at 7:20 pm on May 26, 2002)