Tale of Dad Victory:
Teenagers had to read "non-western" novel for class.
Child's friend picked Crime and Punishment.
I steered child to Siddhartha by Hesse.
Teenagers had to read "non-western" novel for class.
Child's friend picked Crime and Punishment.
I steered child to Siddhartha by Hesse.
I liked that book when I was young but a recent reading didn't leave me super impressed.
My absolute favorite book by Hesse is Narcissus and Goldmund, it's beautiful. The Glass Bead game is pretty amazing too.
I can’t. Dostoyevski’s Russia is still very much European. It’s culturally a lot closer to what was produced in my own Western European country at the time than anything written in the USA at the same period. But the very idea of the western civilisation is dubious anyway.