{"id":24333,"date":"2011-07-02T12:56:55","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T16:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=24333"},"modified":"2011-07-02T12:56:55","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T16:56:55","slug":"hermann-hesse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/07\/02\/hermann-hesse\/","title":{"rendered":"Hermann Hesse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=poW6oop8iug\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=poW6oop8iug<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The conclusion of the &#8220;experimental&#8221; (that is, disastrous) <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steppenwolf_(film)\" target=\"_blank\">1974 film adaptation<\/a> of <\/em>Steppenwolf<\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hermann_Hesse\" target=\"_blank\">Hermann Hesse<\/a>&#8216;s birthday (1877-1962).<\/p>\n<p>Frye in Notebook 44:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I was in Japan I visited a Buddhist temple, several buildings all dignified, rather sombre, and in exquisite taste. At the top of the hill it was on was a Shinto shrine, incredibly gaudy, as though it were made of Christmas candy, the bushes around having rolled-up prayers tied to every twig, like women with their hair in curlers. My immediate feeling was that it was good-humored and disarming: I had no hostile or superior feelings about it all. So why did hostile and superior words, like &#8220;superstitious&#8221; and &#8220;vulgar&#8221; start crowding into my mind? Did <em>God<\/em> tell me he thought it was superstitious and vulgar?<\/p>\n<p>I was reminded of this when I started reading <em>Steppenwolf<\/em>. I started that in the sixties, when every fool in the country was trying to identify with Steppenwolf, and abandoned it after a few pages. I couldn&#8217;t stand the self-pitying whine of someone totally dependent on middle-class values but trying to develop his self-respect by feeling hostile and superior to them. I was hearing the whine all around me at the time. The next stage, also obvious in Hesse&#8217;s text, is when you try to raise your opinion of yourself by despising yourself. Like the wrestler: &#8220;I got so fuckin&#8217; tied all up I could see was a big arse in frunna me, so I takes a bite out of it, and, Christ, it was me own arse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Footnote on Steppenwolf: what I said about it over the page [para. 437] was utter crap, and I didn&#8217;t abandon it after a few pages. I read it through, and, as my marginal notes show, with appreciation. Funny how screen memories work: I resented the student hysterics so much in the sixties, and some of them (at Rochdale, e.g.) made a cult of Hesse. So the remark about the wrestler biting his own arse comes home to roost. Not that I think now that Steppenwolf\u00a0is really a great or profound book, but he&#8217;s aware of his own irony. 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