Hermann Hesse was born in Germany but lived most of his life in Switzerland.Throughout the career he was interested in the different layers of world culture.Among its waves were the philosophical and religious systems, and even analytical psychology.All this was reflected in his works, one of which is "Steppenwolf".
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The novel begins with the protagonist finds notes of a certain Harry Geller, but the most remarkable is that they have been labeled with the words "Only for crazy."Actually, everything revolves around the story and these notes.They described life Geller, his thoughts, dreams and fears.He was the one who in the world today would be called "crazy-loner" - aloof and shy, at first it does not cause the main character is nothing but suspicion.But the more the narrator learns about Harry, the stronger becomes his sympathy and understanding."Steppenwolf" - so nicknamed himself Geller, he saw himself lost among the middle class and civilization, as if it had no place anywhere in the world.He leads a secluded life, hardly out of the house, sitting, surrounded by books, reading all day long, a lot of sleep, and sometimes writes watercolor.
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Harry sees himself as the two sides, one of which is human and the other wolf.And at first the novel "Steppenwolf" is filled with enmity and confrontation between the two sides of the personality Geller.If the majority of his contemporaries found themselves powerless to suppress the will of the Beast and his tame wolf, the Harry rips fight so many different aspects of his personality.He does not want to be tamed, not willing to obey, so he is unable to live on, and, increasingly, in his mind there are suicidal thoughts.In search of truth, he is drawn to the books and classical music, but they do not give him comfort.Again be disappointed after a meeting with a professor, a man who seemed to be just as intelligent as he is, Heller realizes that understanding among people also did not find him.He even disgusted to hear this man, imbued with the spirit of intellectual philistinism.Harry has already been decided that the Steppenwolf won, and he should say goodbye to all the middle-class, scholars and moral world, and, indeed, to life in general.The only problem is oppressive fear of death.
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Life Harry began to acquire the paint after the unexpected acquaintance with a particular named Hermine.Their relationship can not be called a novel, but it really was a kinship.That it attaches to Geller nightlife, jazz, meet people, but eventually the secular mess gives him the knowledge that he is not Steppenwolf, and the most outstanding man in the street.He, like the others, is ready to suppress their identity and to give up their words without a twinge of conscience.Only drugged and became a murderer, erasing the line between dream and reality, he finds the answer ...
Hermann Hesse's novel "Steppenwolf" gives us a theme for reflection on the question of who we actually are, allowsan important decision.This powerful work based on long-term investigations of Hesse, had once helped him to understand himself ...
