I assure you, the comparison was strictly for the uninitiated. I started Traumnovelle today. The first page was, oddly enough, harder than the rest of the first chapter. It just had some very convoluted sentences. However, after I finish that I'm going back to Hesse to read something else of his. I can't decide, though: I have Unterm Rad, Der Steppenwolf and Das Glasperlenspiel. Which do you think would be the best to read?
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.
- 17/02/2011 10:26:34 PM
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Although I have not had the pleasure of reading it in German, in English I deeply enjoyed the book.
- 17/02/2011 10:36:36 PM
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I am in basic agreement with you, though I haven't read it since high school. *NM*
- 18/02/2011 08:48:09 AM
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I think it is a little unfair
- 18/02/2011 11:19:17 AM
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You weren't really slamming a Nobel laureate in favor of a shitty writer like Coelho, were you?
- 18/02/2011 06:29:17 PM
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No
- 18/02/2011 10:20:33 PM
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Thank you. I was starting to worry.
- 19/02/2011 02:15:38 AM
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