![]() ![]() His intellect is, undoubtedly, worthy of genius, though such a thing is wasted because he has no proper channel for such intellect. ![]() Through these pages Hesse evokes a character I have seen many times before across literature, but never before with such clarity. ![]() What Hesse describes, and his use of the lone wolf of the steppe as a symbol is brilliant, is about a time when an individual finds himself alone and in transition – as in a mature man who approaches old age, or as a young person leaving behind the securities of childhood for the uncertainties of adult life. Of course, the book was written about a man as he turns 50, not a youth.īut I think I can understand why this also speaks to young readers. Hesse said, “Of all my books Steppenwolf is the one that was more often and more violently misunderstood than any other”. Many of his books are talking about journey of finding true identity of oneself and this kind of self- examiniation and self-discovery usually starts from teenage years. Kurt Vonnegut exactly described why I have immersed into many of Hesse’s works such as Demian, Narziss and Goldmund, Under the Rad and Siddhartha since I was a teenager. Vonnegut also went on to describe how Hesse speaks to young readers, how he speaks to the essence of youth and offers hope. Kurt Vonnegut said that Hermann Hesse’s novel Steppenwolf was “the most profound book about homesickness ever written”. ![]()
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