I actually kind of love the word "Bildungsroman," though I don't understand why it's capitalized. It just sounds pretentious as fuck but you know it just doesn't give a fuck. Plus, it's basically anchored with the word "dung," or at least I like to think so.<\/p>\n
All of which is to say, Hermann Hesse's Demian<\/em><\/a> is a Bildungsroman.<\/p>\n I hadn't read Demian<\/em> since at some point in high school, and definitely didn't remember much about it. Then I started reading it and vague memories started flooding back: weird MILF-y characters (the concept of the "MILF" not being something we knew about back then [googling: yup, seems more recent<\/a>]), Sprockets<\/a>-like affectations, and then ultimately this superweird repressed undercurrent a little later on (in fact, this brought up some adolescent PTSD — I remembered lines like "You practice continence, too, don't you?" and was transported: what in the fuck were these people thinking?).<\/p>\n Suffice it to say, then, as now, I don't think I "got" that Demian was — duh! — Sinclair's older, wiser self. I think I was too busy perseverating on the character of "Pistorius" and thinking "Oscar" . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I actually kind of love the word "Bildungsroman," though I don't understand why it's capitalized. It just sounds pretentious as fuck but you know it just doesn't give a fuck. Plus, it's basically anchored with the word "dung," or at least I like to think so. All of which is to say, Hermann Hesse's Demian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[266,1059],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-are-the-suvs-of-writing","tag-book-club","tag-milf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}