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tabular_rasaI just finished reading "Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth." I read it all in about two hours . . . but it was really good. There is great quotable material in there, and I like it as one of those let's-just-prompt-thought-right-here novels, the type like mine is . . . where there's a plot, but it's no much important as the defining conversations between the characters are.
It's kind of . . . weird . . . near the end; I had read it had something to do with incest but really it was more the protagonist having erotic dreams about his friend's mother for years-- and then you're supposed to get the hint that the friend and his mother are also having something between them, too . . . it's odd, but it works in the context of the story . . .
I liked the intro (which is odd; usually I hate intos) and just the long passages in which Emil (you know, you never hear his first name; it's only in the title . . . he's called Sinclair a few times, but never Emil) describes the changes happening to him and his thoughts.
The style really reminded me of my novel. Things happen and are reacted to . . . changes occur . . . it takes place over a long period of time . . . there's one main character who seems to know all and teaches through conversing with the main character . . . the only thing is Andy is completely unruffled and perfect, which is good, I think . . . do I have one up on Hermann Hesse? Lol . . .
The voice, though (you know, the tone of speech, the way the narrator speaks, the author's writing-- since all were in first person), really reminds me of Regulus Black in the fanfiction I'm writing right now. That's crazy. Now I'm all inspired to write my fanfiction and I can't find my disk . . .
Anyway, recommended reading . . .
It's kind of . . . weird . . . near the end; I had read it had something to do with incest but really it was more the protagonist having erotic dreams about his friend's mother for years-- and then you're supposed to get the hint that the friend and his mother are also having something between them, too . . . it's odd, but it works in the context of the story . . .
I liked the intro (which is odd; usually I hate intos) and just the long passages in which Emil (you know, you never hear his first name; it's only in the title . . . he's called Sinclair a few times, but never Emil) describes the changes happening to him and his thoughts.
The style really reminded me of my novel. Things happen and are reacted to . . . changes occur . . . it takes place over a long period of time . . . there's one main character who seems to know all and teaches through conversing with the main character . . . the only thing is Andy is completely unruffled and perfect, which is good, I think . . . do I have one up on Hermann Hesse? Lol . . .
The voice, though (you know, the tone of speech, the way the narrator speaks, the author's writing-- since all were in first person), really reminds me of Regulus Black in the fanfiction I'm writing right now. That's crazy. Now I'm all inspired to write my fanfiction and I can't find my disk . . .
Anyway, recommended reading . . .
