Steppenwolf

paperback, 256 Seiten

Am 25. Februar 1999 von Penguin Books, Limited (UK) veröffentlicht.

ISBN:
978-0-14-028258-0
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A man finds that one wolf inside him, then it’s Katie bar the doors.

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TL;DR:
This book covers different social and philosophical aspects before the foreground of a ambivalently suicidal man meeting his life-affirming female soul mate. In an absurd and dream-like ending he kills her. Also you buy actually two books for the price of one!

This is a wonderful and thought provoking book about a man who thinks that is split in two parts: a middle-class persona and the so-called Steppenwolf - an animalistic persona representing the counter-pole of the middle class one. Each persona mocks the other and makes fun of typical his behavior.

This book contains a second book which in a strange twist of plot tells the story of the protagonist Harry. It gives Harry insight in the way that a person does not exclusively consists of two poles of personality but rather of an practically uncountable number of personality treats. This train of thought comes up throughout of …