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Title: Steppenwolf: A Novel by Hermann Hesse, Basil Creighton ISBN: 0-312-27867-5 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.47 (77 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Your life will change forever after you read this book
Comment: From Nobel Price Herman Hesse, Steppenwoolf is his masterwork. At the time of publishing, it became a cult book. Half a century later, this book remains a masterpiece and the central character is as current as it was then. It is the story of a man consumed by anguish, isolated, reclusive at odds with the world and its people.We do not know too much about him, except that in the chapter called "The treatise of the Steppenwoolf" Hesse presents a psychological description of depression,isolation, anguish and anger that has been unsurpassed by the masters of psychology.As the story unfolds, Harry meets a young woman that is a able to enjoy life. Through the interactions with her, harry learns to "smell the flowers", and through several surrealistic experiences, he recalls his past and evolves into a different person.This book is so simple to read and at the same time so profound and impacting that I recommend it as a must read. Better appreciated if you have some life experience. If you read it at coll
Rating: 5
Summary: We all feel like steppenwolves at some point
Comment: This novel is supposedly the writings of Harry Haller, a lonely intellectual who feels isolated from the rest of the world. The story is the account of his existential transformation. Beyond the plot, it is an exploration, a painful one, on the hollowness, emptiness and meaninglessness of life. It talks about how lonely we really are, in the confusing and unexplainable world in which we live. It also talks about the desperation routine brings on, the fakeness of love, the necessity of death. But, in the final analysis, it also shows a probably undeserved love for life. This is not a simple "grunge" book: it's thoughtful philosophy expressed in a fine literary piece of work, which shows vividly some concepts that sometimes formal philosophy renders in abstract and obscure ways.
Harry Haller, the steppenwolf, will meet a simple woman who takes him into the life of the flesh and the simplicity of people. This is very important: Haller comes to realize, in an intuitive more than analytical way, how we all humans feel the same loneliness and confusion, but how most of us manage to live and somehow enjoy many aspects of being alive.
This is an intelligent, deep and moving novel. It is not always pleasant, but then again life is not always pleasant either. Steppenwolf is perhaps the novel in which Hesse best sums up many of the points made in his other novels, previous or subsequent. It is the round-up of a clear and interesting philosophy of life. No wonder people, especially young people, keep finding inspiration, advice and healing in his works. Maybe I shouldn't give it five stars, for it can't be compared with top-level literary masterpieces; but I think literature's importance is not only and not always stylistical. The content is important too, and at least for me, this is one of the most inspiring and memorable novels I've ever read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful and mysterious
Comment: At one point in the seventies, you'd see just about every other person on campus toting a worn-out copy of this book. It was a cult classic. Now, I am not sure who is reading it, but it is just as poignant as it was back then.
Henry Haller is a gray, German sort of non-person, who unearths his inner being when he meets the mysterious Hermine. Is she really a "he", another side of Haller, or is she the love of his life? The duality of man, the inner landscape are the themes of Hesse's brilliant work.
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Title: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse ISBN: 0553208845 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 December, 1981 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Demian by Hermann Hesse ISBN: 0060931914 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse ISBN: 0553275860 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 February, 1984 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) by Hermann Hesse, Richard Winston, Clara Winston ISBN: 0312278497 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse, Hilda Rosner ISBN: 0312421680 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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