Knulp: Three Tales from the Life of Knulp
by Hermann Hesse
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Book Reviews of Knulp: Three Tales from the Life of Knulp
Book Review: Knulp: Three Tales From The Life Of Knulp
Summary: 5 Stars
I thought that I wouldn't enjoy this book because of it's age. It was nearly 10 times my age when I read it and it has been one of the most resplendent books I have ever read. Knulp lives this prodigious life (to me at least) and gets to travel all over without a care in the world. I don't want to give away the ending to people who have never dipped into his world, but I will so please do not further read this article until finshing the book. The concluding story is what I think everybody truly wishes for. Knulp is laying in the snow and telling God how his life was meaningless and he lived a pejorative life, and then God tells him that he did live a meaningfull life. He said that Knulp was living for other people too and I think that it's just the perfect ending to a story and to a life. This book is an laudable piece of literature that should be read by all.Book Review: Justification in avoiding the rat race
Summary: 5 Stars
I consider this set of three tales to be a small masterpiece. Hesse's descriptions of natural settings and Knulp's thoughts offer the reader a broad range of emotion: melancholy to cheerfulness. I was especially struck by Knulp's philosophical/spiritual insights into his own value as a vagabound. Of course, by the end of the book, in his conversations with God, Knulp is reassured that his choice of choosing a path not generally taken by those around him, i.e., being a tramp, is indeed the spiritual path that was intended for him all along. If there is a call for humans to avoid the trap of the "rat race" in order to identify and realize one's authentic self, this is certainly one that is embedded within an excellent authorship. Hesse has given us a brief and beautiful reflection--an image of his greater masterpieces to come later in his life.Book Review: A nostalgia to be free
Summary: 5 Stars
Novels like Knulp seem somehow to be the literary equivalent of belting out a song in the shower, delivered with intensity of feeling and expression; the outpouring of emotion untroubled by how it might come to be regarded. Knulp is a prose poem, like Hamsun's Pan, or Muted Strings, Steinbeck's God Unknown. They echo the solitude the writers must have found, or had forced upon them, and present a world view that's just profound. Knulp's purpose for living is revealed to him; the rest of us find hints and clues in the world we experience, there was much of this in here for me. Recommended.Book Review: genius hesse does it again
Summary: 5 Stars
this early book by hesse is a masterpiece like all of his books. once you read hesse, you'll wonder why you even read other authors, if you are a writer, then you'll feel like your writing sucks after reading hesse. this book is a gateway read into the hesse world, the life of a vagrant who ponders the meaning of life and realizes his life had a purpose.Book Review: Very good
Summary: 5 Stars
Hesse's Knulp reads like one of Pacaso's abstracts; soft summer sun beats down on Knulp's back everything is light and gay. In many ways Knulp remains a child throughout his long and lively life. A very good work by an even better author.