As a child, he lived for a time in Basle. HERMANN HESSE was born in Calw, Germany, in 1877. the gripping and fascinating story of disease in a man's soul'

'A savage indictment of bourgeois society. If you enjoyed Steppenwolf, you might like Hesse's Siddhartha, also available in Penguin Classics.

Hesse was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. This dichotomy is prominent in Hesse's subsequent novels, including Siddhartha (1922), Steppenwolf (1927), Narcissus and Goldmund (1930) and his magnum opus, The Glass Bead Game (1943). Lang a process which resulted in Demian (1919), a novel whose main character is torn between the orderliness of bourgeois existence and the turbulent and enticing world of sensual experience. Herman Hesse (1877 - 1962) suffered from depression and weathered series of personal crises which led him to undergo psychoanalysis with J. This blistering portrayal of a man who feels himself to be half-human and half-wolf was the bible of the 1960s counterculture, capturing the mood of a disaffected generation, and remains a haunting story of estrangement and redemption. But as he is drawn into a series of dreamlike and sometimes savage encounters - accompanied by, among others, Mozart, Goethe and the bewitching Hermione - the misanthropic Haller discovers a higher truth, and the possibility of happiness. In reality he is the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, alienated from society and repulsed by the modern age. A modernist work of profound wisdom that continues to enthral readers with its subtle blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf is revised by Walter Sorell from the original translation by Basil Creighton.Īt first sight Harry Haller seems a respectable, educated man.

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