Steppenwolf

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Steppenwolf

Classic fiction: general and literary Magical realism Narrative theme: Interior life Fiction in translation

Author: Hermann Hesse

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Collection: Penguin Modern Classics

Language: English

Published by: Penguin

Published on: 5th April 2012

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 338 Kb

ISBN: 9780141938684


A new translation by David Horrocks.

At first sight 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 discovers a higher truth, and the possibility of happiness. This haunting portrayal of a man who feels he is half-human and half-wolf became a counterculture classic for a disaffected generation. Yet it is also a story of redemption, and an intricately-structured modernist masterpiece. This is the first new translation of Steppenwolf for over eighty years, returning to the fresh, authentic language of Hesse's original.

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