The Steppenwolf

Name: The Steppenwolf
Brand: Totvsrj-record-dc
SKU: 9788501113887
Price: 69.90 BRL
Availability: InStock

Autor: Hermann Hesse

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Sinopse

Considered by critics to be Hermann Hesse's masterpiece.

Steppenwolf tells the story of Harry Haller, a 50-year-old man who believes his integrity depends on the solitary life he leads amidst the words of Goethe and the scores of Mozart; an intellectual trying to balance himself on the edge of the abyss of social and individual problems, in the face of which his personality becomes increasingly ambivalent and, ultimately, shattered.

The first part of the book is about Haller the Wolf's nightmare, his depression and inability to communicate, which are the basis of his cruelty and destruction. In the second, the wolf becomes humanized through the arrival of Hermínia, who tries to bring him closer to the world—in this case, a simple community of dusty dance halls and shabby bars.

Steppenwolf was written when Hesse, like his character, was 50 years old and deeply influenced by psychoanalysis. The style he adopted, highly revolutionary for its time, was praised by Thomas Mann, who considered Steppenwolf as brilliant as James Joyce's Ulysses as an experimental novel.