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Original Title:	Peter Camenzind
ISBN:	0312422636 (ISBN13: 9780312422639)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Peter Camenzind

Peter Camenzind

Hermann Hesse

Paperback | Pages: 208 pages

Rating: 3.85 | 5515 Users | 273 Reviews

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Peter Camenzind, a young man from a Swiss mountain village, leaves his home and eagerly takes to the road in search of new experience. Traveling through Italy and France, Camenzind is increasingly disillusioned by the suffering he discovers around him; after failed romances and a tragic friendship, his idealism fades into crushing hopelessness. He finds peace again only when he cares for Boppi, an invalid who renews Camenzind's love for humanity and inspires him once again to find joy in the smallest details of every life.

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Title	:	Peter Camenzind
Author	:	Hermann Hesse
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 208 pages
Published	:	December 1st 2003 by Picador (first published 1904)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. European Literature. German Literature. Literature

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The first novel by Hesse, where most of the familiar themes are already present: scholarship and nature, love and death, struggles with parents and society, and ultimately with ones inner demons.

You can't go home again. As a young man, this romantic little gem swept me off my feet. Returning to it years later (my feet more solidly on the ground, by dint of experience), less so. Still, for what it said to me once upon a time, I am ever grateful for this tale of a Romantic young lad and his lust for life...

This was one of the first Hesse novels read after deciding to seek him out. I also found it at once both exceptionally moving and, in comparison to his other work, amusing.The lesson of the book, not unusual one in Hesse, is to appreciate what theologians call "ordinary grace" (as opposed to those miraculous gifts appealed for in all-too-ordinary prayer). Working at the Brookwood Convalescent and Nursing Center in DesPlaines (an old peoples' home) at the time, the lesson was not lost to me.



Shares the self-obsession that characterizes Hesse's later books, but lacks some of the even worse characteristics of same.Nutshell: bucolic twerp self-exiles from village, reads books, drinks heavily, becomes writer, obsesses over various persons, remains unsatisfied, &c. Begins weirdly with prosopopeia involving the mountain scenes of the narrator's village, which matures into mythic-seeming oromachia (2). The ecophile ideology persists throughout, but the mythic mode doesn't last.Narrator

In the beginning was the mythGod, in his search for self-expression, invested the souls with poetic shapesI saw each tree leading a life of its own, formed in its own particular shape, casting its own individual shadowMountains, lake, storms, and sun were my companions. They told me storiesThe souls of men are suspended faintheartedly and longingly and stubbornly between time and eternityI would drift through life like a cloudI expected a loud echo, but my voice died away in the peaceful heights

I love Hermann Hesse. Peter Camenzind reminded me of a 1900's version of On the Road set in Switzerland. Prone to melancholy and drunkenness, Camenzind's wanderlust and love of nature might be better compared to Kerouac's Big Sur. Both books describe characters that you want to succeed, but end up drunk with their hearts broken. They also show an intelligence and self-awareness of the reasons of their failures. Which makes sense why Hermann Hesse and Jack Kerouac are two of my favorite authors.