Steppenwolf

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A used English-language edition featuring a new translation by David Horrocks. “The gripping and fascinating story of disease in a man’s soul” – The New York Times Harry Haller appears to be a respectable, educated man, but he is, in fact, the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, alienated from society, and repulsed by the modern age. Drawn into a series of dreamlike and savage encounters, accompanied by figures such as Mozart, Goethe, and the enchanting Hermione, the misanthropic Haller uncovers a higher truth and the potential for happiness. This haunting depiction of a man who feels torn between human and wolf instincts became a counterculture classic for a disaffected generation. It is also a story of redemption and a modernist masterpiece. This marks the first new translation of Steppenwolf in over eighty years, aiming to recapture the fresh, authentic language of Hesse’s original work. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

About the Author

HERMANN HESSE was born in Calw, Germany, in 1877. As a child, he lived for a time in Basle. He spent a short period studying at a seminary in Germany but soon left to work as a bookseller in Switzerland. From 1904 he devoted himself to writing. After a first volume of verse (1899), Hesse established his reputation with a series of lyrical romantic novels-Peter Camenzind (1904), Unterm Rad (The Prodigy, 1906), Gertrud (1910) and the short story, Knulp (1915). After a visit to India in 1911 he moved to Switzerland and worked for the Red Cross during the First World War. He was denounced in Germany and settled permanently in Switzerland, where he established himself as one of the greatest literary figures in the German-speaking world. His humanity, his searching philosophy developed further in such novels as Siddhartha (1922), Der Steppenwolf (1927), Narziss and Goldmund (1930) and Das Glasperlenspiel (The Glass Bead Game, 1943), while his poems and critical writings won him a leading place among contemporary thinkers. Hesse won many literary awards, including the Nobel Prize in 1946. He died in 1962, shortly after his eighty-fifth birthday.

9780141192093 ISBN
Fantasy
Fantasy, Horror & Science Fiction