World classics of literature: Hermann Hesse, Kurt Vonnegut and Henry Miller

The world classics of literature is boundless as the sea. And the more time step goes by its firm step, the more classics arise in the memory of mankind. In the era of the Internet and the lists of books that are distributed, according to various criteria, it is naive and presumptuous to write about works well known to everyone. Therefore, we are talking about eminent writers, but not too well-known of their works. The company will be strange: it got one German and two Americans - world classics of literature. The list is as follows:

• Hermann Hesse;
• Henry Miller;
• Kurt Vonnegut.

Hermann Hesse is the author of not only "Bead Games", "Steppe Wolf", "Siddharthi"

When a person hears "Hesse", then he comes to mind the above three works, already the first two exactly. True, there are also such readers as Nobel laureate in literature of 1946 and did not hear anything, and this is regrettable, but fixable. Since the Internet on the wolf and the game is getting tired of everything, the article offers no less worthy, but not very popular with the mass reader. "Gerdtrud" - this is also exactly the world classics of literature, but for some reason it does not receive enough attention from the public.

"Gertrude"

A novel about the composer Kune, who was out of the ordinary side of life overnight: during one of the country winter walks with his fellow students at the conservatory, he sat in a sled with the beginning singer Liddy and moved off with her from a very steep slope, but failed to manage and crashed . Liddy got off with a slight fright and a cut hand (it was just a scratch), and Kun broke his leg so badly that he was lame forever.

In the novel, everything is interesting, but above all, the process of the transformation of Kuhn: his inner personal transitions from hatred to others, to humility, acceptance and dissolution in creativity. The love of the hero and the women who are next to him. Of course, Hesse's prose is inconceivable without musical and philosophical intentions.

Kurt Vonnegut and his "Breakfast for Champions"

With "Pope Kurt" (S. King) the same story as with Hesse. We say "Vonnegut" means "Cradle for a cat", "Cannon number 5" and, perhaps, "Mechanical piano" (a classic of world literature, the list of works is quite worthy). Meanwhile, Vonnegut wrote many more remarkable books, which few people pay attention to.

"Breakfast for Champions", even despite the adaptation to the great and mighty Bruce Uiliss, did not become a cult work in the eyes of the venerable, reading public.

Two heroes move towards each other as the plot develops. And in the process of this movement, they happen to a variety of adventures. To tell the truth, the story of Vonnegut's book does not play a decisive role, the main thing that frames this story is its inimitable Vneganutov's humor: sometimes cynical, hard, but almost always containing a secret, hidden love for a person. Sam K. Vonnegut put "Breakfast ..." 3 on a 5-point scale, that is, this was not his favorite work of his own production, and yet it is a world classics of literature, and it should not pass by the reader. If someone is interested, then the hard five K. Vonnegut has set himself for "Sirens ...", "Mother-darkness", "Slaughterhouse ...", "Cradle ..." and two or three more works, but "Breakfast ..." was in Disfavor to its creator. So it goes.

Information about the assessments is taken from the recently published in Russian book by K. Vonnegut "Palm Sunday".

"Indecent" literary classic Henry Miller

The world classics of literature can also be represented by such a writer who, in Soviet times, probably would not be readable. Most of his works, as they say, now have a tolerance level of +18, or even +21. Speech, of course, is about Henry Miller. He has two main trilogies: "The Rose of the Crucifixion" (it consists of "Sexus", "Pleksus", "Nexus") and "Autobiographical Trilogy" ("Black Spring", "Tropic of Cancer" and "Tropic of Capricorn").

"Tropic of Cancer"

In principle, it would be possible to take any work of G. Miller, and there would be approximately the same thing as in the "Tropic of Cancer": the minimum of the plot, the maximum of artistic and philosophical content. Many books by G. Miller are autobiographical. He does not hesitate in detail about his sex life. When you read it, it seems that the whole world is really saturated and smelled of sex, but still in the novels of G. Miller sensual pleasures are not the alpha and omega of the narrative. His works are a bottomless reservoir of images and thoughts. Specifically, the "Tropic of Cancer" is good for its sublimely low reasoning about a woman. If someone is interested in the world classics of literature (the best), then, without a doubt, even one second, you can call the prose of Henry Miller. It is not only fascinating, piquant and boring, but also beautifully written, and as you know, such books can not harm a person. This applies to almost all writers from the category "World Classics of Literature", their list is extremely extensive.

True, Miller read better after 18 or 20 years, but not because of intense eroticism, but because many of his turns of thought and style may be incomprehensible to a person under 18 years of age.

Thus, the classic of world literature (the list of works recommended for reading after reading this article) looks like this:

• "Gertrude" (G. Hesse).
• "Breakfast for champions" (V. Vonnegut).
• "Tropic of Cancer" (G. Miller).