why not just live and enjoy life?I read Steppenwolf the summer after I departed from dear old Lubbock. It came to me randomly, I think my mom or sister found it at a garage sale and it some how wound up in my hands. I had read Hesse's Siddhartha in high school and then again during a philosophy class at Texas Tech. While Siddartha was relatively an easy-to-get-into novel, with a straightforward plot, Steppenwolf proved more elusive and delved into a darker chasm of humanity which was difficult to immerse myself. The novel weaves at least 4 themes of humanity, tied together in one character, and themes directly paralleled my existence implicitly. Hesse builds the character in way that characterizes my relationship and parallels architecture and the fascination of one's passion and opposed lack of luster and zeal for that very passion. The grand analogy that Hesse presents at the end of the book is closely tangent to Vonnegut's summation in Cat's Cradle. READ BOTH
Herman Hesse Steppenwolf Siddartha Cat's Cradle
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I forget, it has been forever since I devoured Cat's Cradle, what is this summation you referenced. I do remember the relationship the scientist character had with his work. An aloof connection between what is assigned and what is interesting.
ReplyDeletethis book has a sweet ass cover