My Year of Rest and Relaxation Hermann Hesse unearthing Europe as an unconscious

unearthing Europe as an unconscious palimpsest

which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death

disturbing and sometimes shocking terms

he has no great family to back him

My Year of Rest and Relaxation Hermann Hesse unearthing Europe as an unconsciousA 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