>Last third of Lieutenant Hornblower is a better "down and out" tale than anything by HesseWhy isn't Hornblower discussed seriously?
>>25249090i've read a few hesse i don't remember any down and out tales tho i guess ur referring to steppenwolf his most popular and most misunderstood and most shitty novel to be representative of his ouvre?
>>25249093Siddhartha is also the same pattern
>>25249090I know an old British woman who has a bunch of these books. She came from a line of Royal Navy officers. And lives in rural Texas of all places. Anyways thought I'd say something to bump the thread.
Hesse writes thinly veiled and heavily romanticized coming of age stories which sometimes have a down and out component, he does not write down and out tales.
>>25249090I loved the Hornblower books growing up, now I am an officer in the Navy. It is very much a classic, although rather formulaic and I will say I much preferred the earlier books.
>>25249782Yeah, and Hornblower is a naval coming of age story with down and out elements. And less fucking miserable and petty than Herman "Incel Energy" Hesse.
>>25250096Based, did your subsequent experience in the seas change your opinion of the books?
>>25249090The Hornblower novels are good, but they don't compare to the Master and Commander novels.
