Book · 1927 · Fiction

Steppenwolf

Name: Steppenwolf
Author: Hermann Hesse

Picador (Macmillan) · 224 pages

★ 6.9 editorial score

Harry Haller believes he is half man, half wolf: too fine for bourgeois life, too weak to leave it. A dance hall woman leads him into jazz, drugs, and the Magic Theater.

Medium

Novel

Subject

Duality of man Alienation Modernity Search for meaning

Time

1927Depicts Interwar Period

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