![]() ![]() Steppenwolf falls into the category that several of the books I've read for books1001 do: I can recognize it as the intellectual and literary tour de force that it is, and still I found it dull, plodding, and tedious, with a character for whom I felt very little sympathy. Hesse's prose probably goes down a lot better with a bong. Hermann Hesse was a great German writer, poet, and intellectual who wrote deep, spiritual books which became enormously popular in the counterculture movement in the 1960s. Originally published in English in 1929, the novel' s wisdom continues to speak to our souls and marks it as a classic of modern literature. With its blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, it is one of literature's most poetic evocations of the soul's journey to liberation. ![]() Steppenwolf is Hesse's best-known and most autobiographical work. The tale of the Steppenwolf culminates in the surreal Magic Theater-for mad men only. His life changes dramatically when he meets a woman who is his opposite, the carefree and elusive Hermine. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises. ![]() Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. Inverarity One-line summary: A man who believes he is a wolf inside struggles to find himself - yeah, it's one of those novels. ![]()
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