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Steppenwolf (Paperback)
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Steppenwolf (Paperback)
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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List price R309
Loot Price R252
Discovery Miles 2 520
You Save R57 (18%)
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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. At first sight Harry Haller seems 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 discovers a higher
truth, and the possibility of happiness. 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. Herman Hesse (1877 - 1962) suffered
from depression and weathered series of personal crises which led
him to undergo psychoanalysis with J. B. 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. 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). Hesse was awarded the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. If you enjoyed Steppenwolf, you
might like Hesse's Siddhartha, also available in Penguin Classics.
'A savage indictment of bourgeois society ... the gripping and
fascinating story of disease in a man's soul' The New York Times
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