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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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How long has it been since you read Narcissus? I'm debating rereading it. I read quite a bit of Hesse in my 20s, and dared to reread Steppenwolfe in my 40s. It did NOT hit the same - I was very much a let down though not totally surprising. I read Journey to the East much later, perhaps late 30s, and it really worked for me - I'd feel 'safer' rereading that one
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Honestly I wouldn’t reread most of it today The only one I’d consider rereading would be Glass Bead Game today
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