[percy-l] Percy & Hesse

Justin Bonanno bonannju at gmail.com
Mon Mar 21 10:06:56 EDT 2022


You can get a sense of Percy's view of Hesse in *Love in the Ruins, *p. 64.
Thomas More suggests that *Siddhartha *was one of the books that ruined his
wife Doris.

-Justin

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> When I was a teenager in the 1970s, I was a serious reader of Hermann
> Hesse, the great German author. I learned about Hesse from an encouraging
> essay by Kurt Vonnegut, also a favorite of mine at the time. Did Percy read
> Hesse?
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> I am no scholar, heaven knows, but in my laziness I have developed a
> million labor-saving workarounds.  Although it is only a partial and not a
> definitive answer to your question, I can report that Hermann Hesse does
> not appear in the indices of the following books I have on my Percy shelf:
>
> ?Jay Tolson?s and Father Samway?s biographies of Percy
> ?John F. Desmond?s Walker Percy?s Search for Community
> ?Robert Coles? Walker Percy, An American Search
> ?Jessica Hooten Wilson?s Reading Walker Percy?s Novels and Walker Percy,
> Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence
> ?Lewis A. Lawson?s Following Percy
> ?Kieran Quinlan?s Walker Percy, The Last Catholic Novelist
> ?Lawson and Kramer, editors, Conversations With Walker Percy
>
> Further affiant sayeth naught.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> > On Mar 20, 2022, at 12:53 PM, Michael Martin Serafin <
> michael_serafin at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > ?
> > When I was a teenager in the 1970s, I was a serious reader of Hermann
> Hesse, the great German author. I learned about Hesse from an encouraging
> essay by Kurt Vonnegut, also a favorite of mine at the time. Did Percy read
> Hesse?
> >
> > Michael Martin Serafin
> > Chicopee, MA.
> >
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> To a cultured mind no scenery is
> Ordinary.
> And
> Such a mind will prefer solitude in
> An unassuming landscape.
> DP lived on the bogue Fayala ( sp)
> A porous and certain primeval
> Relaxin and releasing
> Also
> He wasn?t scared to meet the
> Crowd and suck crayfishes either
> But
> He wasn?t dipping into orientalists
> He made fun of them with aunt
> Emily?s Bagvagita. Too bad
> Tom Merton and he never
> Dialogued.
> Doubt is too
> catching.
> Thank you,
> Lauren
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> > On Mar 20, 2022, at 2:34 PM, lowry.charles at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > ?I am no scholar, heaven knows, but in my laziness I have developed a
> million labor-saving workarounds.  Although it is only a partial and not a
> definitive answer to your question, I can report that Hermann Hesse does
> not appear in the indices of the following books I have on my Percy shelf:
> >
> > ?Jay Tolson?s and Father Samway?s biographies of Percy
> > ?John F. Desmond?s Walker Percy?s Search for Community
> > ?Robert Coles? Walker Percy, An American Search
> > ?Jessica Hooten Wilson?s Reading Walker Percy?s Novels and Walker Percy,
> Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence
> > ?Lewis A. Lawson?s Following Percy
> > ?Kieran Quinlan?s Walker Percy, The Last Catholic Novelist
> > ?Lawson and Kramer, editors, Conversations With Walker Percy
> >
> > Further affiant sayeth naught.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >>> On Mar 20, 2022, at 12:53 PM, Michael Martin Serafin <
> michael_serafin at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >> ?
> >> When I was a teenager in the 1970s, I was a serious reader of Hermann
> Hesse, the great German author. I learned about Hesse from an encouraging
> essay by Kurt Vonnegut, also a favorite of mine at the time. Did Percy read
> Hesse?
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> >> Michael Martin Serafin
> >> Chicopee, MA.
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