Steppenwolf
"Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse's iconic countercultural novel about the search for authenticity in an inauthentic world, in a new translation A Penguin Classic At first glance, Harry Haller seems like a respectable, educated man. In reality, he is the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, alienated from so...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English German |
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Henry Holt and Co.,
c1929.
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| Summary: | "Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse's iconic countercultural novel about the search for authenticity in an inauthentic world, in a new translation A Penguin Classic At first glance, Harry Haller seems like a respectable, educated man. In reality, he is the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, alienated from society, and repulsed by the modern age. 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 undergoes a spiritual, even psychedelic, journey, and ultimately discovers a higher truth and the possibility of happiness. This blistering portrait 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. It continues to resonate as a haunting story of estrangement, redemption, and the search for one's place in the world. |
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| Physical Description: | 309 p. ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780143137825 0143137824 |
| Author Notes: | David Horrocks (translator) was a lecturer in German at Keele University. He wrote about and taught German modernism and the work of Hermann Hesse and Günter Grass and translated Hesse and Thomas Bernhard. |
