My ranking of Hermann Hesse's novels (What I love! What I barely remember! What bored me!)

[@rickvenlo1362]

Besten Dank. Annehmbaren und übersichtlichen Reviews. How important these works are for the young persons development. Greets.

[@therealzilch]

A very nice and personal view of Hesse. I may have to revisit him. But I'll try him in German this time. cheers from sunny Vienna, good work, Scott

[@BrandonsBookshelf]

Looks like you've been doing tons of Hesse since I have been gone. Cant wait to catch up on it all. Ok you have inspired me so much to read those first two. I have read everything else so its crazy I've missed out on you consider the two best!

[@Ursulas_Odds_and_Sods]

You won't be disappointed! Demian and Narcissus and Goldmund are among my all-time favoritest books.

[@tomlabooks3263]

The strange thing is that I’ve never even heard about “Demian”! I need to get a copy!!! Thanks for the video.

[@Ursulas_Odds_and_Sods]

It's one of the most life-changing books I've ever read. Going forward, i plan to reread it much more regularly.

I just want to relate to you a significant encounter I had, and I live in the UK. It was a visual discussion on the paintings of John Constable and Caspar David Friedrich, comparing them. The woman leading this discussion accepted comments at the end, and she publicly mocked me for my own comparing of Friedrich's paintings with Hermann Hesse's work. She accused me of being foolish and childish in liking Hesse's work, and told me to dismiss him and return him to the hippies. I silently left and for a while I felt sorrow for the world.

[@williammarkland8351]

I've been rereading Hesse from my early uni (1070's) days, this has really helped my prioritizing.

[@Ursulas_Odds_and_Sods]

I'm glad you found it useful!

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

I love your videos😻

[@adelaidedupont9017]

📑🔖📗📘📙📚📖 - that one makes me think of the other intellectual. And the friendships involved in a different book. You and Thou

[@angelgonzalez-v5c]

why is vagabond/ vagabundo / drifters so hard to find?

[@adelaidedupont9017]

"A wanderer that played God's fool" - this is an example of how mass-market paperbacks can shape our reading and our expectations of books. And the peaceful greenness suits my feelings for graphic design.

[@MisterWondrous]

Hesse was responsible for turning me into a fairly monkish young man, lo those many moons ago. I do apologize for being late to the meeting. This was in my feed (Henny Penny said). I've only read four or five of his novels, and were I good with the maths I would be able to tell you more exactly, but I ain't so I caint. I might have put the goodly Magister at the top of my list, but maybe only because of time involved. Narcissus and Goldmund was golden. Also enjoyed Sid and Demian...and the movie Steppenwolf. Journey was a drudge for so short a book. I gave up. I still have it though. Now I better understand those I have yet to read...so thanks again!

[@Ursulas_Odds_and_Sods]

I'm glad you enjoyed the video!

[@adelaidedupont9017]

So those books are on the borderland between historical and literary - he had lots of these concerns which happened to be in the past. Good warning about the differences.

[@adelaidedupont9017]

I wonder if the readers who have read STEPPENWOLF and SIDDHARTA - how did they relate to JOurney of the East? It seems to me like a multiverse and/or a roman à clef. *Papa will wait for me and Mozart too* ...

[@adelaidedupont9017]

Yes - Hesse really seemed to hit his stride with shorter texts.

[@adelaidedupont9017]

The older and younger son remind me of Cain and Abel [the Old Testament text]. And I can see why you enjoy this text.

[@adelaidedupont9017]

And someone had joked that Mozart had 11 or 12 wolves inside him instead of only 2 - and that's why they called him WolfGANG! Saw this one on Tumblr on a blog called *Never had to have happened to be true* in their *Laugh Rule* tag.

[@adelaidedupont9017]

And I only really know SIDDHARTA and THE GLASS BEAD GAME - the latter through its Penguin edition. I am not sure it really matters How the Game is played. It does matter Why it is Played and the relationships which are formed through it.

[@adelaidedupont9017]

Wonderful to read about emotionally attaching covers. [especially the three novels you mentioned]. And the mass-market covers have their own power too. An Australian author [Carmel Bird] has broken her books into half and retied it with ribbon to make it easier to read. So THAT's how you say STEPPENWOLF! What? He doesn't know how to laugh or dance?

[@Ursulas_Odds_and_Sods]

Harry is so lost in his own world of intellectualism, he doesn't understand how people in the outside world live.

[@adelaidedupont9017]

@@Ursulas_Odds_and_Sods Have met a few characters - and real people - like that. And so often the way outside people live is - incomprehensible. Have just read about a non-intellectual Harry [he is not in the magical series I will not name] - he went to fight in the Spanish Civil War.

[@adelaidedupont9017]

That bickering among friends!

[@adelaidedupont9017]

Gertrud really is special!

[@adelaidedupont9017]

And I think Hesse caught up with the worldbuilding in GLASS BEAD GAME. How sad that your novels are away.