Despairing and melancholy, Harry feels himself to be “a wolf of the Steppes,” or “Steppenwolf,” adrift and alone in a world that is incomprehensible to him and offers him no joy. Steppenwolf recounts Harry’s pain and anxiety as he tries to overcome his crippling sense of dislocation and despair at the futility of humanity. Title/Info: Hermann Hesse Steppenwolf s Vintage Mass Market Paperback Book. Bantam Books. pages. ” x 7” Condition Notes. Bumped corners. Edge wear. Rubbed edges. Creasing to volume. Creasing to covers, pages within. Staining to covers, . Steppenwolf (German: Der Steppenwolf) is a novel by the German writer Hermann Hesse, first translated into English in It presents itself as a manuscript written by Harry Haller, a lonely and suicidal middle-aged man who stumbles upon a “magic theater,” in which he has a series of surreal but revitalizing experiences.
Steppenwolf. Harry Haller, a middle-aged intellectual, moves into a lodging house in a medium-sized, generic town, which is never named. Despairing and melancholy, Harry feels himself to be "a wolf of the Steppes," or "Steppenwolf," adrift and alone in a world that is incomprehensible to him and offers him no joy. Support local bookstores by buying books through Bookshop www.doorway.ru Disclosure: this link is my affiliate page at www.doorway.ru Archived. Just finished Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse. Confused with the ending. I'm not quite sure what to make of the ending. It is clear that Hermine is not real for a few reasons: In the preface of the novel, which is one of the few ties to "reality" in the book, a woman is mentioned but it is not Hermine. It is Erika.
His life changes dramatically when he meets a woman who is his opposite, the carefree and elusive Hermine. The tale of the Steppenwolf culminates in the surreal Magic Theater—For Madmen Only! Originally published in English in , Steppenwolf 's wisdom continues to speak to our souls and marks it as a classic of modern literature. Just as Hesse took a moment to create a story within a story with his Steppenwolf treatise, he creates a dream sequence to explore topics like art, music, and literature. Preview — Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse. Steppenwolf Quotes Showing of “Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.”. ― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf.
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