The Nobel Committee described the award decision as one that has come, “for his inspired writings which, while growing in boldness and penetration, exemplify the classical humanitarian ideals and high qualities of style.” The author won a Nobel Prize for literature in 1946. Other reviews and on the fact the preface contains descriptions that show or suggest that Harry Haller is indeed Herman Hesse. The author is very poetic in his lines throughout the book. I could go on and on, but this philosophical look at life is very deep. But the image of every true act, the strength of every true feeling, belongs to eternity just as much, even though no one knows of it or sees it or records it or hands it down to posterity.
The saints, too, belong there, who have worked wonders and suffered martyrdom and given a great example to men. The music of Mozart belongs there and the poetry of your great poets. I say to myself: all we who ask too much and have a dimension too many could not contrive to live at all if there were not another air to breathe outside the air of this world, if there were not eternity at the back of time and this is the kingdom of truth. Fame exists in that sense only for the schoolmasters. Have been famous and known to posterity?” Has that any value? And do you think that all true and real men “You mean a name, and fame with posterity?” Nothing but death’, Hermine says after a long philosophical monologue To the rest, to the real men belongs nothing. ‘Time and the world, money and power, belong to the small people, and the shallow people. The conversation on page 178 about the existence is a winner. Strangely, the 253-page book has two chapters only. You should read.Īs a lover of philosophy and poetry, this book resonated with me from reading one part of a conversation What follows is a huge awakening which the book describes interestingly. For once, he rediscovers the joys of youth. But a chance meeting with a lady, Hermine, in a bar changes the course of his outlook on life. Haunted by the pain of gout, divorced from his wife and away from his children he travels the world and is always far away from the merrymaking of every day. Sickly (gout) and suicidal, he doesn’t desire any joy anymore. Harry Haller is a man who has resigned to fate. Steppenwolf is a book about a good boy turned bad, or rather an old man who has lived his life as a shy and anti-social man suddenly discovering the joys of youth in old age.
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