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I can see how one may reason non-westerness of Dostoyevski, but - Hesse as non-western!? Isn't he Swiss?
by thriftwy 3y ago
I can see how one may reason non-westerness of Dostoyevski, but - Hesse as non-western!? Isn't he Swiss?
- SubGenius 3y agoI guess the subject matter is eastern/Buddhist in nature? Not sure what GP meant. I liked that book when I was young but a recent reading didn't leave me super impressed. My absolute favorite book by Hesse is Narcissus and Goldmund, it's beautiful. The Glass Bead game is pretty amazing too.
- readthenotes1 3y agoSiddhartha being about Buddha was enough to qualify. I hadn't read it since college, but remembered how short it was ...
- brmgb 3y ago> I can see how one may reason non-westerness of Dostoyevski I can’t. Dostoyevski’s Russia is still very much European. It’s culturally a lot closer to what was produced in my own Western European country at the time than anything written in the USA at the same period. But the very idea of the western civilisation is dubious anyway.