#about halfway through 'the three lives' and fascinated by how prominently relationships with women feature in knecht's fictitious auto-
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since i'm almost done with it, this is your heartfelt end-of-year exhortation to read the glass bead game. if only because i'm sick of being the only person gayjosephknechtposting on tumblr dot com
#about halfway through 'the three lives' and fascinated by how prominently relationships with women feature in knecht's fictitious auto-#biographies when - if memory serves - he really only interacts with one woman in the main book; and when so much of hesse's work#focuses on relationships between men.#the narrative framing of both the 'biography' and the three lives is an utter delight and i'm so glad i didn't read the three lives-#when they were first mentioned around the 100-page mark.#hermann your MIND#audreys#das glasperlenspiel#the glass bead game#currently reading
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