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Donald H.J. Hermann is Professor of Law and Harvard Fellow in Law and Humanities...
What should have been, at best, an act of therapy turns out to be a minor work of art. Sarah Ferguson is as intelligent as she is neurotic: educated by governesses until she was 15, an Oxford product, a quoter of the currently quotable - from William Blake to Hermann Hesse. She is also a religious woman who speaks about her "sins" and, in a chillingly matter-of-fact tone, refers to divorce as "a broken promise...
...CINDY HERMANN...
...REALLY FAIR to be too cynical about Eastern religion: whatever it is, it's at least a complex bundle of ideas not simply grasped by Westerners or novices. It's a bit easier to raise eyebrows at Hermann Hesse's novella Siddhartha, but still, Hesse--who also wrote Journey to the East, seems to know something about Hindu mysticism, or at least to approach his subject with a certain degree of intellectual honesty and sophistication...
...organizing motif metaphors about snails. When he is pressed by an interviewer's question Grass often answers with a disarming "ah yes but my party is a party of snails." Collecting snails--this is the hobby of the fictional personification of Doubt in Nazi Germany, a character, also called Hermann Ott, in Grass's book. Melancholia and the achievement of political "stasis in progress" are two of the themes which dignify the image of the snail into high symbolism. What better emblem could a writer offer for the Jew reluctantly leaving his homeland in the Germany of the thirties than...