Today I made a start with reading Ernst Bloch’s masterpiece in three volumes, Das Prinzip Hoffunun (1959)
After the introduction Bloch begins with the dreams and ideals of the adolescent. The seventeen years old lad who fantasizes about a date with the most beautiful girl in town.
Somehow it nicely fits with Aldous Huxley’s Crome Yellow (1922) and his main figure Denis, twenty three years and desperately trying to be a (successful) writer…
