![]() ![]() Either that or he must undergo the deadly flames of further self-scrutiny till melting point, then transform himself, tear off is mask and enter upon a new stage of self-development. “This Steppenwolf had to die, he had to put an end to his detestable existence. One thing that thrilled me, reading this book now, 90 years after its first publication, is how exactly Hesse describes a transit of Pluto. This is a novel about the arduous and sometimes life-threatening nature of the quest for self-knowledge. Not only does his own life feel meaningless and empty, the world around him, especially the bourgeois world, seems hypocritical, deluded (and yet, and yet, strangely beautiful). Harry Haller, the protagonist of Hermann Hesse’s masterpiece, the short novel Steppenwolf, is having a bit of a crisis. He comes across a strange door in a wall and sees this sign, or thinks he sees it, but then does it disappear? A man, who feels himself to be half wolf, wanders through the rainy night streets of a European city. ![]()
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