Steppenwolf
Author(s): Hesse Hermann
'The unhappiness that I need and long for ...is of the kind that will let me suffer with eagerness and die with lust. That is the unhappiness, or happiness, that I am waiting for.'
Alienated from society, Harry Haller is the Steppenwolf, wild, strange and shy. His despair and desire for death draw him into an enchanted, Faust-like underworld. Through a series of shadowy encounters, romantic, freakish and savage by turn, Haller begins to rediscover the lost dreams of his youth.
Adopted by the Sixties counterculture, Steppenwolf captured the mood of a disaffected generation that was beginning to question everything.
Product Information
The gripping and fascinating story of disease in a man's soul, and a savage indictment of bourgeois society - New York Times Existential masterpiece - The Times A profoundly memorable and affecting novel - New York Times
General Fields
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- : Penguin UK
- : Penguin (General UK)
- : 01 May 2011
- : 01 June 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Hesse Hermann