Seymour Glass and Josef Knecht?

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Have you read Hermann Hess and his Glass Bead Game?  Joseph Knecht =
reminds me
of a somewhat more Down To Earth Seymour...=20
Eric, your question really affected me. Because I like Salinger=B4s =
Seymour by heart and I don=B4t like Hesse=B4s male protagonists and =
their author at all - seeing at the same time that there is indeed some =
similarity between them. Both are spiritual seekers and their =
=B4inventors=B4 both created some kind of spiritual =
=B4Entwicklungsroman=B4. But to me there exist indeed serious =
differences between the world according to Salinger and Hesse=B4s =
utopia. I think one main point is that Hesse=B4s figures serve their =
author=B4s intention of creating a highly normative poetic universe - =
consisting of a male elite separated from all the Fat ladies (except =
maybe for the =B4Steppenwolf=B4). I always have the impression that =
Hesse=B4s figures do not really =B4live=B4 but mainly serve their =
author=B4s Weltanschauungs-purpose. This may be illustrated by the lack =
of humor in Hesse=B4s work: can you imagine Josef Knecht pretending to =
chew candles regularily face to face with his pupil? When I spent one =
year as a teacher in Utrecht / The Netherlands, one of my students asked =
me: Kirsten, which is the thinnest book on earth? ... The book of German =
humor. As a German claiming to enjoy humor I of course disagree (to =
gather some disciples: try Uwe Johnson=B4s =B4Anniversaries=B4) but =
there=B4s quite something in it.

I would venture to compare Seymour
to Hamlet and Knecht to his friend Horatio. < To be honest: I know =
=B4Hamlet=B4 too little to say anything qualified about this question.

Kirsten





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