Reviews - Der Steppenwolf | The StoryGraph

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Very slow at first, basically starts off painting a portrait of this man the Steppenwolf from three different perspectives, his landlord’s nephew, himself, and in the 3rd person from a handbook. This start is repetitive and I was concerned when the book would actually start! But it painted his character so well it really informs how you read the following plot. From there it’s just amazing and dream like. Rotten but not sick. Spiritual transformation!

tauli's review against another edition

3.75

challenging mysterious reflective medium-paced

brocksamson24's review against another edition

4.0

reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

emilineb's review against another edition

3.0

3.5. This book was a mixed bag for me. There were times when it was slow and I despised it, other times when I found myself stuck in between the pages and was throughly enjoying it.

There were two main things about this book that I still, after finishing, stick out to me as a summary of my reading experience; I enjoy what the book had to say, the concepts that it touched upon about society and things such as love and suicide, but also, it’s not that deep my dude. It was such a weirdly beautiful perspective on life - even through suffering we endure for the sake of experiencing it as part of life, yet despite all these life lessons and real brain-bending head-turning ideas, i can’t help but get over how this book feels quite arrogant and pompous.

A generation on the cusp of change, it is complicated, multi-faceted and bloody conceited at times. It was not as ‘fictitious’ as i had anticipated, and a little outdated, but I still found it enjoyable as I had to use my head quite a bit.