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Steppenwolf
by Hermann Hesse
adventurous
dark
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Recommended by work friend Alice as her "favourite book ever". And a good opportunity to sample Hesse, who I've never read before.
A bizarrist, existential, elliptical tale of a lonely man out of place and I'll at ease in his age. Imagining himself as a wolf of the steppes, the semi-autobiographical protagonist recounts his re-education in being a human, learning how to dance, laugh and take life less seriously.
There's something timeless about this book (and I can see why it was picked up as a cult classic in the 1960s).
I saw a lot of parallels to Bulgakov's zany plots and Thomas Mann's heavily theoretical fiction.
A bizarrist, existential, elliptical tale of a lonely man out of place and I'll at ease in his age. Imagining himself as a wolf of the steppes, the semi-autobiographical protagonist recounts his re-education in being a human, learning how to dance, laugh and take life less seriously.
There's something timeless about this book (and I can see why it was picked up as a cult classic in the 1960s).
I saw a lot of parallels to Bulgakov's zany plots and Thomas Mann's heavily theoretical fiction.