>>7488171
I know this is the only one I read and I didn't get it at all.
They say the book is good and influential and shit, but I just can't see it.
Please, explain, why is it considered even slightly good?

no. that would be the glass bead game.

narcissus and goldmund is also superior.

you can make an argument for journey to the east as well though it's not my personal preference.

>>7488194
it's good for getting plebs to reveal themselves, pleb

>>7488203
Yeah, you demonstrate this point quite well.

>>7488201
I've read all the book you mentioned, except Journey to the east.
I really liked them, but Steppenwolf remains my favorite

>>7488243
theres no way you could think that if you actually have a decent understanding of what hesse was writing about. im forced to conclude you're either a pleb or you're lying about what you read.

hesse as an author followed a very clear progression in his books, and each is an advancement/refinement of the last. steppenwolf is, as hesse himself noted, his most misunderstood novel, and its popularity comes from people misinterpreting what he was trying to say.

>>7488258
But Hesse is dead

>>7488258
I'm just a pleb

>>7488267
checkmate hesseists

>>7488267
>he thinks dead reals
*tips crown chakra*