I'd classify Kafka and Hesse (although in very different senses) as "you can't keep living like this, man" authors
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Hesse
In my teens, I went through a phase where I couldn't quite get over the brilliance of "Siddhartha". I was so full of myself.
As a recovering intellectual, I put more value in "Steppenwolf" and I shudder at my one-time devotion.
Strauss' most beautiful work is a setting of a Hesse texthttps://youtu.be/Se0HPsJex04