Steppenwolf

[Romain / rXg]

Tony, :)

In the book itself, Mozart doesn t play but he s listening the radio with
 Steppenwolf ( at the end of the book in 'the magical theatre' ),
I agree with you about Hesse and 'creativity' ...I think he's a
pro Nietzschean way of perception (specially during the first half of the
book ) :P but the second half  specially the end make me wonder about
it( Nietzschean) because things go imho "alright" (happy end instead of a
melancholic end).
in two words : the steppenwolf is not anymore steppenwolf but learn to smile
at things instead to be pissed off about it ...

I don t know 'The Glass Bead Game' maybe a day I will read it ( thanks for
the advice)
I guess when I will finish the notes from the 'Eternal return' of Nietzsche,
I will go to read the swedish guy called "Strindberg''
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Strindberg

It seems interresting :)



On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Tony Hardie-Bick <tony at entity.net> wrote:

> Hey Romain...
>
> (lost the original thread this was on)
>
> I must confess it's been ten years since I read the book, and I couldn't
> recall
> the part that Mozart plays. I've refreshed my memory a bit. What I got from
> the
> book is Hesse's complete involvement with creativity as a force; he is like
> a
> wise doctor. His choice of metaphors is astonishing. I'd have to read it
> again
> to remember more than that. I see the book as conveying an attitude of
> thinking;
> a movement away from the complexity/indulgence Steppenwolf-like people
> dream up
> for themselves, and more into open-minded action. I think all artists are
> Steppenwolf-like people.
>
> "The Glass Bead Game" is another book that mysteriously plays with music
> and
> art. It is brilliant and strange; more like the music he talks about than
> his
> other books, which are more like "books".
>
> Tony (HB)
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Romain
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