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. English 'This Faust-like and magical story of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope was described in The New York Times as a savage indictment of bourgeois society. In reality he is the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, alienated from society and repulsed by the modern age. To my surprise the original German was even better than the translation i.e. A few years ago I wanted to use a quote from the book in an art work and it looked up in the original German. 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. So, one of my favorite books of all time is Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse.
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