Steppenwolf: Hermann Hesse: 9 (Penguin Essentials, 9)

Hesse, Hermann Hermann Hesse,

ISBN 10: 0241951526 / ISBN 13: 9780241951521

Published by Penguin, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Steppenwolf: Hermann Hesse: 9 (Penguin Essentials, 9)
• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241951526
• ISBN 13: 9780241951521
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

''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.

About the Author

Hermann Hesse was born in Calw, Germany, in 1877. After a short period at a seminary he moved to Switzerland to work as a bookseller. From 1904 he devoted himself to writing, establishing his reputation with a series of romantic novels. During the First World War he worked for the Red Cross. His later novels - Siddartha (1922), Steppenwolf (1927), Narziss und Goldmund (1930) and Das Glasperlenspiel (The Glass Bead Game, 1943) - poems and critical essays established him as one of the greatest literary figures of the German-speaking world. He won many literary awards including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. Hermann Hesse died in 1962.