- **Nobel
- Prize
- winner
- Hermann
- Hesse’s
- iconic
- countercultural
- novel
- about
- the
- search
- for
- authenticity
- in
- an
- inauthentic
- world,
- in
- a
- new
- translationA
- Penguin
- Classic**At
- first
- glance,
- Harry
- Haller
- seems
- like
- 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
- undergoes
- a
- spiritual,
- even
- psychedelic,
- journey,
- and
- ultimately
- discovers
- a
- higher
- truth
- and
- the
- possibility
- of
- happiness.This
- blistering
- portrait
- 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.
- It
- continues
- to
- resonate
- as
- a
- haunting
- story
- of
- estrangement,
- redemption,
- and
- the
- search
- for
- one’s
- place
- in
- the world.
pro-mbooks3 : libris
