| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780312278670 | | Publisher: Picador USA | | Publish Date: 12/1/2002 | | Buy.com Sku: 31026360 | | Item#: RXFJG9 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 68426 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8.5H x 5.5L x 0.5T | | Pages: 224 |
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| | | Hesse, in his autobiographical book, is a man drunk on Nietzsche and Schopenhauerian pessimism, with an added dose of Eastern mysticism. This novel, written in 1927, contains savage indictments of conventional bourgeois morality and searching philosophic forays into the role of art, music and the independent, self-willed individual.
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The classic study of a split personality by the renowned German author and Nobel Laureate. The narrator is a man who regards himself as half-human and half-wolf, a creature of the Russian steppes.
| PraiseSaturday Review
"'Steppenwolf' has its compensations. A passionate love of music runs through it, infecting the reader with its ardour." - L. P. Hartley 06/01/1929New York Times
"Although it is written in a noble, lofty and lucid style (and ably translated), ['Steppenwolf'] may strike the average reader as too 'European,' too mystical and possibly too shocking in its brutal honesty. 'Steppenwolf' will most likely remain fare for the knowing few." - Claude Hill 03/16/1947 "Introduction to Hermann Hesse's 'Demian'"
"And need it be stated that, as an experimental novel, 'Steppenwolf' is no less daring than 'Ulysses' and 'The Counterfeiters'?" - Thomas Mann 1948 Bookman
"No review, whatever its length, could ever do justice to this amazing book....For anyone who is not afraid of being disturbed and who strives towards a sympathetic understanding of modern intellectual Germany, 'Steppenwolf' is indispensable." Oct. 1929 Library Journal
"Recommended for wide purchase." - F. Hirsch 03/15/1947 Spectator
"This is an absorbing book for the psychologist, though merely bewildering, probably, to the average novel reader....If you read without prejudice and with the close attention such a novel demands, you will not only be held by the enigma it presents but be pierced continually by a wisdom which scatters shafts of light." - R.A. Taylor 05/18/1929 |
| Author Bio| Hermann Hesse | | Hermann Hesse grew up in Calw, Wurttemberg, and Basel, Switzerland. His father was a missionary and publisher, and his maternal grandfather was a publisher in Calw. He attended a seminary briefly as a young man, and was an apprentice clockmaker and bookseller before devoting himself full time to his writing in 1903. Hesse served as a volunteer in the German foreign service in Switzerland during the First World War, but he reclaimed the Swiss citizenship of his childhood in 1923. He underwent psychoanalysis from 1916 to 1918 and that experience had a profound effect on his writing. Hesse moved to Montagnola, Switzerland (near Lugano) in 1919 and lived there until his death. The winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1946, Hesse was a leading voice of pacifism in the German-speaking world throughout his adult life, and his works were blacklisted in Germany under the Third Reich. In the years after his death in 1962, his works, many of which had not been translated into English before, became popular with the youth of the United States, who identified themes in his books which were relevant to many of the changes taking place in the U.S. during the late 1960s and 1970s. |
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