– "Steppenwolf" by Heman Hesse tells the story of Harry Haller, a strange and lonely ageing figure who believes he is half wolf. Haller suffers from great depression, losing the will to live and giving in to the wolf side of his nature, believing he knows how he will die. This all changes however, when he encounters a young woman who gives him a reason to live once more. She does not fear his wolf side and so helps him to feel less of an outsider, all the while explaining to him the concept of an afterlife, in doing so providing him with hope. The story is told from 3 different perspectives; the reports of a relative of Haller's landlady, a strange book given to Haller and Haller's own diaries. This book is a difficult and "heavy" read at times, while at most times it's utterly mezmerizing and wonderful! This is a very important part of modern litterature, it truly is a classic worth reading!
Steppenwolf
«The gripping and fascinating story of disease in a man's soul»
The New York Times
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A new translation of this counterculture classic by David Horrocks
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Penguin Classics
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 272
- ISBN
- 9780141192093
- Utgivelsesår
- 2012
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Om forfatteren
Herman Hesse was born in southern Germany in 1877. Hesse concentrated on writing poetry as a young man, but his first successful book was a novel, Peter Camenzind (1904). During the war, Hesse was actively involved in relief efforts. Depression, criticism for his pacifist views, and a series of personal crises led Hesse to undergo psychoanalysis with J. B. Lang. Out of these years came Demian (1919), a novel whose main character is torn between the orderliness of bourgeois existence and the turbulent and enticing world of sensual experience. This dichotomy is prominent in Hesse's subsequent novels, including Siddhartha (1922), Steppenwolf (1927), and Narcissus and Goldmund (1930). Hesse worked on his magnum opus, The Glass Bead Game (1943), for twelve years. This novel was specifically cited when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. Hesse died at his home in Switzerland in 1962.
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