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July
@july
If I had to choose one - Narcissus and Goldmund (Hesse) As a teen I also remember: - Demian (Hesse) classic coming of age story - Siddhartha (Hesse) - On the Penal Colony (Kafka) - Rashomon (Akutagawa) - In a Grove (Akutagawa) - The Grand Inquisitor (Dostoevsky) - Notes from the Underground (Dostoevsky) - Nausea (Sartre) As a tween: - Every single Harry Potter book - LOTR - Also not a novel but I watched Neon Genesis Evangelion (the whole series and the movie and I remember being really drawn to how wild it was compared to anything else I’d ever seen) In Hesse’s Demian, Demian talks about living a comfortable life in a “World of Light” as a child, and he sees the outside world of darkness. Similarly, Siddhartha starts out comfortably but must venture into the outside world full of darkness. Maybe this coming of age idea is what Hesse has a lot in his novels, but it resonated with me a lot at the time. I remember feeling it deeply. And the other novels I read that I listed here are still great too
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@kpx
I know people read the grand inquisitor alone. I sometimes try to imagine how I would have felt if not read in brother karamazov. Would have impacted the same way?
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July
@july
I read both but remember the grand inquisitor the most
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KP (d/acc)
@kpx
Bro I can't imagine you read these as a teen. Thats crazy. I read these in my early 20s and felt that whole life which I lived till was a lie. How was it for you, as a teen you felt that angst too??
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