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Synopsis
This Faust-like and magical story of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope was described in The New York Times as a ‘savage indictment of bourgeois society’. But, as the author notes in this edition, Steppenwolf is a book that has been consistently misinterpreted. This self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf can also be seen as a plea for rigorous self-examination and an indictment of intellectual hypocrisy.
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
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‘Of all my books Steppenwolf is the one that was more often and more violently misunderstood than any other’ Hermann Hesse
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