So, I'm new here...

[Nasha]

I will be in public interest or in-house for a non-law public entity, so I'll have more free time than some dork at a firm, at least. (I'll make a good deal less, but I don't need a lot of cash.)

Very glad to hear you'll be escaping the fim grind, soul intact.

PS What do you think about Hermann Hesse, since we're mentioning German authors?

It's been a while, and I've got a crap memory, but my general impressions:

I was completely carried away by Steppenwolf, and compelled to read all the Hesse I could get my hands on. Really liked Damien. Then Siddartha and The Glass Bead Game both irked me as being annoyingly self-indulgent, in different ways, and I haven't bothered to read anything else of his.

 

[drksideofthemoon]

I'd say something interesting about myself, but nothing comes to mind.

 

[_Lynn_]

I'd say something interesting about myself, but nothing comes to mind.

Sounds like something I would say today.......are you looking in My head again???

 

[writelove]

I saw this thread and thought I'd throw in my ten cents.

Speaking of authors, Dostoyevski is one of my favorites. His Brother's Karamazov is excellent. The Idiot is good as well. You won't like him if you don't want to wrestle with good and evil, the nature of man. There are three "official" brothers and one bastard son. Each is different from the other symbolizing the three natures of man -- Dmitri the sensualist, Ivan the rationalist, and Alyosha the Christian.

In his Notes from the Underground Dostoyevski wrote against the illusion of the Crystal Palace, the edifice from the Enlightenment, the wall -- rationalism. He said in a quote I still remember -- I agree that two plus two equals four is an excellent thing. But two plus two equals five is also an excellent thing. By this he means that for man even math won’t explain our nature. The Enlightenment for all its trust in reason could never explain the dark passions of the human heart. Dostoyevski understood.

A good German writer is Kafka. His Trial is excellent.