in which he blames her for their family’s crises
and a story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence
unearthing Europe as an unconscious palimpsest
heart-breaking tale of the crushing weight of hope and expectation
which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death
My Year of Rest and Relaxation Hermann Hesse in which he blames herA shocking, hilarious and strangely tender novel about a young womans experiment in narcotic hibernation, aided and abetted by one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature. Our narrator has many of the advantages of life, on the surface. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. But there is a vacuum at the heart of