“I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?” Chapter 1: Two Worlds […]
German literature
Narcissus and Goldmund
“You are an artist, and I am a thinker. You sleep at the mother’s breast; I wake in the desert.” Part One: The Monastery Narcissus, a disciplined and […]
German literature
Steppenwolf
“For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this […]