Steppenwolf: A Novel
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With its blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, Hesse's best-known and most autobiographical work is one of literature's most poetic evocations of the soul's journey to liberation
Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises. His life changes dramatically when he meets a woman who is his opposite, the carefree and elusive Hermine.
Originally published in English in 1929, Steppenwolf 's wisdom continues to speak to our souls and marks it as a classic of modern literature.
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Hermann Hesse. (2008). Steppenwolf: A Novel. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Hermann Hesse. 2008. Steppenwolf: A Novel. Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf: A Novel. Blackstone Publishing, 2008.
MLA Citation (style guide)Hermann Hesse. Steppenwolf: A Novel. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2008.
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Peter Weller is a film and stage actor whose theater credits include David Rabe's Streamers, David Mamet's The Woods, and Richard Nelson's Frank's Home. His many film works include RoboCop, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite, The New Age, and Naked Lunch. His short film Partners received an Oscar nomination.
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Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises. His life changes dramatically when he meets a woman who is his opposite, the carefree and elusive Hermine.
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May 26, 2008
While it's good for a titter to picture Peter Weller in full RoboCop
gear reading Hesse's classic novel of intellectual absorption with the primeval, it is not entirely necessary for full appreciation of his reading. Weller, who has a Midwestern folksy personability, reads Hesse less as a work of great literature than a philosophical manual, meant to be studied for personal improvement. Hesse can be forbidding, even for the teenage readers who often discover literature through him, so Weller wisely renders his novel familiar, comfortable and friendly. Currently wrapping up a Ph.D. at UCLA in Italian Renaissance art history, Weller has clearly been taking lessons in sounding professorial—entirely apropos here.
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Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises. His life changes dramatically when he meets a woman who is his opposite, the carefree and elusive Hermine.
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