finished reading peter camenzind

> on january, i went to the city where my boyfriend lives for his birthday. i gifted him camel's i can see your house from here on cd, cause he loves prog rock, and we spent a lovely day. when i had to come back to my city, which is one hour away from where he lives, we had to go to the passenger terminal where you take buses and stuff, and there was a little kiosk that sells books, mostly law books, but i was able to find a compilation of hermann hesse's works. it includes his first novel "peter camenzind", which i finished yesterday, march 3rd.

> it's about this guy named peter camenzind, he lives in a mountain village named nimikon where most of the people have that surname. he's kind of a buff guy but he's sensitive as hell and he loves hiking and traveling by foot. when he grows up, he studies and becomes a writer in zurich. the rest of the novel it's him growing up and falling in love and travelling. in the city, peter kind of forgets of his "highlander" status and gets involved in arts, but always felt like an outsider. at the end he comes back to his village and realizes that although he experienced so many things in the city and his travels, his place and his heart was always in the mountains.

> it kind of reminded me of siddhartha (another novel by hesse), as he lived something similar; getting out of his house to discover himself and what he wants to do, gets lost in "mundane" things, and comes back to the start but being a better and complete person, full of knowledge an experiences. kind of like the prodigal son, but not in a sad or disappointing point of view, as they came back being a full grown man.

> i really loved how peter described his surroundings and his love for nature, specially clouds. constantly he feels melancholic and starts to think about his failed romances, looking at the sky and reciting verses. it reminded me of myself. and the way he's so kind and generous, peter kind of made me feel gender envy.

> i really enjoyed this novel, and i'm looking forward to read more of hesse's works. he's my favorite author and i've read plenty of his novels. i'm between reading knulp or the glass bead game, both from hesse. but i'm also reading thus spoke zarathustra and some of kafka's works.

> but sometimes i don't read at all, i get really lazy and spend my time playing games. does this happen to you? also, are you currently reading something? i want some recommendations. but i have to finish the ones i'm reading.

emil over and out