Hi, Justin,
Good to hear from you. Regarding the list (and here, too), people are afraid or are unwilling to share ideas and thoughts so it makes discussions impossible... Anyway.

Regarding _Journey to the East_, I can't really remember much from it. It has been a long time since I read it, sorry. I would like to read it again in the future.

Best,
Duke

Hey, Duke, I would love to see you at Timo's Hermann Hesse site at www.hhesse.de.

Most of the site is in German but there's one section in the forum specifically for English, and unfortunately I'm the only one who's posted there.

There's also a chat and most of the people there know at least some English. And I'm on the site much of the time...

Harry Haller is sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He estruggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrending to the bourgeois values he despises. His life changes dramatically when he meets a woman who is his opposite, the carefree and elusive Hermine.The tale of the Steppenwolf culminates in the surreal Magic Theater For Madmen Only!. You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live

I really like Demian at all, the novel and the character. I think he (it) really reflex the spiritual searching that every human must do in is life....Or not? Are you human? Do you believe in something? In what? Is that the truth? and what if not? I really think Demian is the source of phylosophical meditation....thanx

H.H. is by far my favorite of any Hesse character. The narrator in Journey to the East, H.H. is lost, curious, and extremely naive in a very forgivable and empathetic way. I must say I can relate to him in every way; although Hesse makes any character easy to relate to, it would go without saying there must be one specific character for every person. Mine is H.H.

Siddartha is the Buddha

Dear Ramiro,
Knecht is dead. He didn't make it. He represents the failure of academics to translate to real life.

Please Nemanja, the main characteristic of Demian is weakness. I hope he is not stronger than you.

Narziss und Goldmund simple? Hesse would appreciate that tremendously. I think.

Evidently Gusto Graeser never really caught on. Who is he?