Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf (Penguin Classics)

Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf (Penguin Modern Classics, 2012). Translated and with an Afterword by David Horrocks.

ISBN: 978-0141192093 | 256 pages | ePUB + MOBI


HERMANN HESSE (1877-1962) was a German poet and novelist who received the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. His work explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality.

Now in a new translation by David Horrocks, STEPPENWOLF (1927) is a modernist work of profound wisdom that continues to enthral readers with its subtle blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture. Combining autobiographical and psychoanalytic elements, it reflects a profound crisis in Hesse's spiritual world during the 1920s.

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.

NOTE: For the translation by Basil Creighton, updated by Joseph Mileck, see: http://kickasstorrents.ee/hermann-hesse-steppenwolf-siddhartha-epub-t8636942.html