Steppenwolf

Description

Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse’s iconic countercultural novel about the search for authenticity in an inauthentic world, in a new translation

A Penguin Classic

At first glance, 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 undergoes a spiritual, even psychedelic, journey, and ultimately discovers a higher truth and the possibility of happiness.

This blistering portrait of a man who feels himself to be half human and half wolf was the bible of the 1960s counterculture, capturing the mood of a disaffected generation. It continues to resonate as a haunting story of estrangement, redemption, and the search for one’s place in the world.
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Hermann Hesse, David Horrocks (Translator), David Horrocks (Afterword by)
Published: 03/04/2025
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780143137825
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 0.80″ H x 7.90″ L x 5.10″ W

About the Author
Hermann Hesse (1877­-1962) won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. His many books include Demian, Siddhartha, and Narcissus and Goldmund.

David Horrocks (translator) was a lecturer in German at Keele University. He wrote about and taught German modernism and the work of Hermann Hesse and Günter Grass and translated Hesse and Thomas Bernhard.