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Description of the book 'Steppenwolf': A modernist work of profound wisdom that continues to enthral readers with its subtle blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, the 'Penguin Modern Classics' edition of Hermann Hesse's 'Steppenwolf' is revised by Walter Sorell from the original translation by Basil Creighton.
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Steppenwolf is a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. This Faust-like and magical story is evidence of Hesse's searching philosophy and extraordinary sense of humanity as he tells of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope. Yet his novel can also be seen as a plea for rigorous self-examination and an indictment of the intel...more
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- Steppenwolf is a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. This Faust-like and magical story is evidence of Hesse's searching philosophy and extraordinary sense of humanity as he tells of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope.
Published 1999 by Penguin (first published 1927)
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PeterThis answer contains spoilers…(view spoiler)[ It could be that there are occult underpinnings to the naming conventions used by Hesse in Steppenwolf and JKR in Harry Potter. The name Hermine means…more It could be that there are occult underpinnings to the naming conventions used by Hesse in Steppenwolf and JKR in Harry Potter. The name Hermine means something like 'feminine half.' (as in the term, Hermaphrodite) The first magician was named Hermes Trismagistus, indicating the spiritual state of hermaphroditism. My argument is that Hermine is imagined by Harry because of his psychological (Freudian) need. That is why she insists that he kill her, and at the end of the novel he completes the task because he no longer needs her as a psychological crutch. (less)(hide spoiler)]
BambiaddieHi! I just finished the book and my level of german is approximately B2, a better B2 I'd say. What I found was that it varied, some parts were…moreHi! I just finished the book and my level of german is approximately B2, a better B2 I'd say. What I found was that it varied, some parts were relatively easy to read and some were harder, but it is most definitely doable. Naturally you're going to need a dictionary, there were so many words I did not know but hey, it's all about learning. Still I wouldn't say that this is the easiest book to start with, throughout my reading of the book I had a peek at the version of the book written in my mother tongue (Czech) several times and found the language to be advanced even there, so that definitely says something. Maybe a more modern book would be easier to begin with too in terms of language but give this one a try for sure! :) (less)
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Mar 17, 2011Rajat Ubhaykar rated it it was amazing
I read this book on a twenty four hour train journey surrounded by the bourgeois. It was a terrifying experience. The book didn't change my life and was not meant to, but it gave me hope and hope is always a good thing.
The influence of Indian spirituality on this book is apparent, but Hesse chooses to dissect it using the prism of Western pessimism. He talks about the multiplicity of the self and the infinite potential associated with it, how we often choose to attach fanciful restrictions to...more
The influence of Indian spirituality on this book is apparent, but Hesse chooses to dissect it using the prism of Western pessimism. He talks about the multiplicity of the self and the infinite potential associated with it, how we often choose to attach fanciful restrictions to...more
Jun 12, 2017Sean Barrs the Bookdragon rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Hermann Hesse’s words are timeless. Here they represent an entire disaffected generation, a generation who is on the cusp of radical change but still partly exists in the old world. They are out of space and out of time: they are lost within themselves. However, such things can aptly be applied to a number of individuals across the ages. And, for me, this is what made the novel so great.
Through these pages Hesse evokes a character I have seen many times before across literature, but never befor...more
Through these pages Hesse evokes a character I have seen many times before across literature, but never befor...more
Kurt Vonnegut, one of my literary heroes, said of Hermann Hesse’s novel Steppenwolf that is was “the most profound book about homesickness ever written”. Vonnegut also went on to describe how Hesse speaks to young readers, how he speaks to the essence of youth and offers hope.
Like many readers, I first encountered Hesse as a young person, for me it was when I was in high school. Hesse’s illustration of isolation and being misunderstood spoke to me as a youth, as I imagine it has for many young p...more
Like many readers, I first encountered Hesse as a young person, for me it was when I was in high school. Hesse’s illustration of isolation and being misunderstood spoke to me as a youth, as I imagine it has for many young p...more
May 09, 2010Paquita Maria Sanchez rated it really liked it · review of another edition
This novel:
1. Initially reminded me very much of my own mental imbalances.
2. Started to make me feel like I'd been had, and that it was, in fact, just pretentious, overly self-aware 'me me me' wackoff shite.
3. Redeemed itself (AND THE NARRATOR!) in the end with its exploration of drug-induced Jungian dreamscapes and subconscious mental states.
4. Successfully summoned that strange emotion that I like to call 'happysad.'
5. Did not change my life forever, but did act like aloe on a sunburn for my...more
Oct 03, 2008Ahmad Sharabiani rated it really liked it · review of another edition1. Initially reminded me very much of my own mental imbalances.
2. Started to make me feel like I'd been had, and that it was, in fact, just pretentious, overly self-aware 'me me me' wackoff shite.
3. Redeemed itself (AND THE NARRATOR!) in the end with its exploration of drug-induced Jungian dreamscapes and subconscious mental states.
4. Successfully summoned that strange emotion that I like to call 'happysad.'
5. Did not change my life forever, but did act like aloe on a sunburn for my...more
Shelves: 1001-book, fiction, classic, literature, 20th-century, german, biography
684. Der Steppenwolf = Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
Originally published in Germany in 1927, it was first translated into English in 1929. Combining autobiographical and psychoanalytic elements, the novel was named after the German name for the steppe wolf. The story in large part reflects a profound crisis in Hesse's spiritual world during the 1920's while memorably portraying the protagonist's split between his humanity and his wolf-like aggression and homelessness.
عنوانها: گرگ بیابان؛ گرگ بیابان...more
Originally published in Germany in 1927, it was first translated into English in 1929. Combining autobiographical and psychoanalytic elements, the novel was named after the German name for the steppe wolf. The story in large part reflects a profound crisis in Hesse's spiritual world during the 1920's while memorably portraying the protagonist's split between his humanity and his wolf-like aggression and homelessness.
عنوانها: گرگ بیابان؛ گرگ بیابان...more
Mar 26, 2018Glenn Russell rated it it was amazing
Many literary novels are page-turners, filled with a compelling, straightforward storyline and lots of action; think of Our Mutual Friend and Crime and Punishment, think of Heart of Darkness and No Country for Old Men, or novels like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo or The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.
Hermann Hesse's novel Steppenwolf is a work of a completely different cast; a reader might find the story gripping, even riveting, but for much different reasons, for the action takes place not in...more
Sep 16, 2011Darwin8u rated it really liked it · review of another edition
“There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
There is this bourgeoisie period in every man's life. A midpoint between birth and death where man is trapped alone. Unable to exist in the hot or cold of the absolutes he tries to find his way between the extremes in the comfortable center. Fearing life and death, he just |exists| ... barely. This is not a novel for the young. Just like i...more
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
There is this bourgeoisie period in every man's life. A midpoint between birth and death where man is trapped alone. Unable to exist in the hot or cold of the absolutes he tries to find his way between the extremes in the comfortable center. Fearing life and death, he just |exists| ... barely. This is not a novel for the young. Just like i...more
Sep 27, 2015Agir(آگِر) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
آنچه برای شخص من جنبه لذت اشراق و تعالی دارد چیزی است که مردم دنیا حداکثر آنرا در عالم ادبیات می جویند و دوست دارند، ولی درصحنه زندگی آنرا چیزی دیوانه وار تلقی می کنند
و در واقع اگر حق با دنیا باشد، اگر حق با این موسیقی کافه ای، با این کِیف های دسته جمعی، با این مردم آمریکائی مآب کم ادعای قانع زود خرسند باشد، پس من دیوانه هستم، پس من واقعا همان گرگ بیابانی هستم که به خود لقب داده ام، حیوانی هستم که در دنیایی غریبه و نامفهوم راه گم کرده ام، حیوانی که به خانه و کاشانه، هوای مورد احتیاج و غذای خود...more
Jun 25, 2014Lisa rated it it was amazing · review of another editionو در واقع اگر حق با دنیا باشد، اگر حق با این موسیقی کافه ای، با این کِیف های دسته جمعی، با این مردم آمریکائی مآب کم ادعای قانع زود خرسند باشد، پس من دیوانه هستم، پس من واقعا همان گرگ بیابانی هستم که به خود لقب داده ام، حیوانی هستم که در دنیایی غریبه و نامفهوم راه گم کرده ام، حیوانی که به خانه و کاشانه، هوای مورد احتیاج و غذای خود...more
Shelves: nobels, 1001-books-to-read-before-you-die
Rereading is tricky business!
And if the author's name is Hermann Hesse, rereading is a hit or miss experience, all depending on whether you happen to be in that time-space-continuum where Hesse makes sense or not. I devoured his works in my twenties, only to drop them like hot potatoes in my thirties, anachronistically blaming Hesse for being out of touch with the modern perception of the world as I knew it right then. So, now in my early forties, I seem to have swung back on that eternally movi...more
Mar 01, 2012Jenn(ifer) rated it really liked it · review of another editionAnd if the author's name is Hermann Hesse, rereading is a hit or miss experience, all depending on whether you happen to be in that time-space-continuum where Hesse makes sense or not. I devoured his works in my twenties, only to drop them like hot potatoes in my thirties, anachronistically blaming Hesse for being out of touch with the modern perception of the world as I knew it right then. So, now in my early forties, I seem to have swung back on that eternally movi...more
Shelves: the-germans, nobel-laureates, dark, read-in-2012
Um. What the? What?
What the hell did I just read?
First third, BRILLIANT -- one of the most interesting bits of philosophical fiction I've ever read. Seriously. I was completely enthralled. Second third -- hard to believe that two people would ever actually have conversations such as these, but still engaging. Third third -- what the F*CK? No, really, what the f*ck? It was some sort of crazy funhouse reality blurring, whacked out Kubrick film. I don't know if I liked it or I hated it. My brain i...more
What the hell did I just read?
First third, BRILLIANT -- one of the most interesting bits of philosophical fiction I've ever read. Seriously. I was completely enthralled. Second third -- hard to believe that two people would ever actually have conversations such as these, but still engaging. Third third -- what the F*CK? No, really, what the f*ck? It was some sort of crazy funhouse reality blurring, whacked out Kubrick film. I don't know if I liked it or I hated it. My brain i...more
Having read several other novels by Hesse (Siddharta, Demian, Narcissus & Goldmund and Knulp), the theme of a protagonist intellectually or culturally isolated from the rest of society is familiar. However, in Steppenwolf, the depths of our protagonist’s (Harry’s) despair separates him from other of Hesse’s protagonists and from humanity. His life isn’t confirmed as valid or authentic. Harry doesn’t see himself as fully human. Instead, he sees himself as half-human and half-wolf (Steppenwolf...more
May 28, 2012sologdin rated it did not like it · review of another edition Shelves: dilectio-sapientiae, of-best-sentence-and-moost-solaas
Likely the dumbest Important Book that I've read.
Yeah, it's cool that the narrator thinks he's a werewolf, but is really just a recluse pseudo-academic--and then reads a manuscript that describes fake werewolves and outs them as poseurs.
Cool, also, that the preface, by the manuscript's fictional finder and publisher, records the impression that the horrors of the middle ages were non-existent: 'A man of the Middle Ages would detest the whole mode of our present day life as something far more th...more
Yeah, it's cool that the narrator thinks he's a werewolf, but is really just a recluse pseudo-academic--and then reads a manuscript that describes fake werewolves and outs them as poseurs.
Cool, also, that the preface, by the manuscript's fictional finder and publisher, records the impression that the horrors of the middle ages were non-existent: 'A man of the Middle Ages would detest the whole mode of our present day life as something far more th...more
Jan 04, 2017Nikos Tsentemeidis rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Συγκλονιστικό έργο. Βαθιά φιλοσοφικό και ψυχολογικό. Σε πολλά του σημεία είδα τον εαυτό μου. Δεν ξέρω γιατί αλλά μου θύμισε πολύ έντονα την πρώτη φορά που διάβασα Καμύ και συγκεκριμένα την πτώση.
Δεν έχω να γράψω κάτι, παρά να σας παραπέμψω στην κριτική της Ειρήνης που τα είπε εξαιρετικά, και εξαιτίας της διάβασα αυτό το βιβλίο και την ευχαριστώ
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Feb 24, 2011Ian 'Marvin' Graye rated it it was amazing · review of another editionΔεν έχω να γράψω κάτι, παρά να σας παραπέμψω στην κριτική της Ειρήνης που τα είπε εξαιρετικά, και εξαιτίας της διάβασα αυτό το βιβλίο και την ευχαριστώ
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Shelves: hesse, re-read, read-2015, reviews, reviews-5-stars
Half Bourgeois/Half Wolf
'Steppenwolf' starts with a fascinating 20 page preface that places a more conventional perspective on the rest of the novel (which is quite radical, if not exactly nihilist).
The unnamed first person narrator could be one of us. He purports to be 'a middle class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality, [as well as] an abstainer and non-smoker.'
He gets to know the Steppenwolf, Harry Haller, while they both rent furnished rooms in his aunt's apartment.
He fi...more
Dec 02, 2015Steven Godin rated it it was amazing · review of another edition'Steppenwolf' starts with a fascinating 20 page preface that places a more conventional perspective on the rest of the novel (which is quite radical, if not exactly nihilist).
The unnamed first person narrator could be one of us. He purports to be 'a middle class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality, [as well as] an abstainer and non-smoker.'
He gets to know the Steppenwolf, Harry Haller, while they both rent furnished rooms in his aunt's apartment.
He fi...more
Shelves: classic-fiction, existentialism, germany, nobel-laureates, favourites
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Jan 01, 2018Perry rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
The Best Novel on the Intellectual Male's Midlife Crisis
I might well have ridiculed this novel at 20, when I was unconquerable, infinite, the world my oyster. Thirty years on, having been through the process of disenchantment called life, and survived the tragic ends (de facto and de jure) of each chapter of my personal myth--the perfect job, a huge house, insane wealth, and adoration of both my looks and smarts--I find this novel profound.
Hermann Hesse wrote this in his late 40s and I can see p...more
I might well have ridiculed this novel at 20, when I was unconquerable, infinite, the world my oyster. Thirty years on, having been through the process of disenchantment called life, and survived the tragic ends (de facto and de jure) of each chapter of my personal myth--the perfect job, a huge house, insane wealth, and adoration of both my looks and smarts--I find this novel profound.
Hermann Hesse wrote this in his late 40s and I can see p...more
May 02, 2011Dan Schwent rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Harry Haller fights a battle ever day against his animalistic nature, the Steppenwolf, the thing keeping him from fitting in with society. Will he conquer the Steppenwolf before it drives him to suicide?
I'd toyed with the idea of paraphrasing the opening of the 1970's Incredible Hulk TV show but it felt disrespectful to a book of this power. Steppenwolf is one of the more thought-provoking books I've ever read. I lost count of the number of times I stopped and pondered my own Steppenwolfishness....more
I'd toyed with the idea of paraphrasing the opening of the 1970's Incredible Hulk TV show but it felt disrespectful to a book of this power. Steppenwolf is one of the more thought-provoking books I've ever read. I lost count of the number of times I stopped and pondered my own Steppenwolfishness....more
Jun 15, 2011Jan-Maat added it · review of another edition
Goodness what a delightfully interior novel this is, I had quite forgotten or more possibly never noticed. It was some years ago when I last read it, rather as Mark Twain allegedly said of his father, I find it much improved in the interim.
Before I reread The Glass Bead Game I was weighing up which to return to first. I think this was the better way round at least for me, I had a feeling that Harry was in want of Castalia, or that the Castalian life was developed to avoid the development of Step...more
Before I reread The Glass Bead Game I was weighing up which to return to first. I think this was the better way round at least for me, I had a feeling that Harry was in want of Castalia, or that the Castalian life was developed to avoid the development of Step...more
Feb 21, 2017هَنَـــاءْ rated it liked it · review of another edition
يتكرر الأمر بجنائزية مرعبة.
ندفن شيئاً، نطمر أشياء.
نقف مكتوفي الأيدي حيال الكثير.
ولا نفقد الجاذبية التي تُجَمّع ذرّاتنا إلا في السر،
حيث نثق أن لا أحد.
ستبنوولف
القيوط
ذئب البراري
ذئب السهول
رواية أو سيرة ذاتية .. أقرب ما تكون لقلب هيسه فقد لمحت ذلك وهو يصف الصور التي علّقها ذلك الغريب على حائطه. لا أدري كيف شعرت بأن هذا الحائط الذي يصفه هيرمان هو حائطه الشخصي والصور حقاً صوره التي يراها بأم عينه ويسجلها بإسم ذلك الغريب .. 'الذئب'.
ربما لأنها كانت لغاندي وبوذا وجوته ولعلمي بأن هؤلاء بالتحديد هم من أثر ع...more
Apr 13, 2018Algernon (Darth Anyan) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
A stray wolf of the steppes, now part of the herd of city-dwellers – there could be no more compelling way of picturing him, his wary isolation, his wildness, his restlessness, his homelessness and his yearning for home.
Herr Harry Haller has transcended his own timeframe and cultural space to become an universal symbol of the misunderstood intellectual, of the sensitive mind cast adrift on an ocean of mediocrity, of the voice of reason drowned by the howls of the dogs of war. Like Holden Caulf...more
Feb 02, 2015Nickolas the Kid rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Ο Αριστοτέλης έλεγε πως για να ζήσει κανείς μόνος του πρέπει να είναι ή θηρίο ή θεός. Η μοναξιά είναι ανεξαρτησία σύμφωνα με τον Έσσε αλλά ας μην ξεχνάμε και τον Φρόυντ ο οποίος πίστευε ο πολιτισμός είναι η πηγή της δυστυχίας για τους ανθρώπους....
Ο Έσσε λοιπόν μας δίνει ένα ψυχογραφικό μυθιστόρημα το οποίο εμβαθύνει στα πιο σκοτεινά μονοπάτια της ανθρώπινης ψυχής. Ο Χάρυ δεν είναι θεός... Είναι ένας άνθρωπος ο οποίος προτιμά την μοναξιά και την ασφάλεια του σπιτιού του. Είναι όμως πραγματικά αν...more
Ο Έσσε λοιπόν μας δίνει ένα ψυχογραφικό μυθιστόρημα το οποίο εμβαθύνει στα πιο σκοτεινά μονοπάτια της ανθρώπινης ψυχής. Ο Χάρυ δεν είναι θεός... Είναι ένας άνθρωπος ο οποίος προτιμά την μοναξιά και την ασφάλεια του σπιτιού του. Είναι όμως πραγματικά αν...more
Apr 23, 2018David Schaafsma rated it really liked it · review of another edition
for madmen only
In league with Pessoa’s Book of Disquiet and Dostoevsky’s Raskolnikov, Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf is about a suicidal guy who never actually commits suicide, a tortured soul who struggles with the dualism of his nature, from the human to the wolf, from the classical to the romantic, to the spiritual to the sinful, from the life of the mind to the life of the body. I read this three times when I was 18-20, trying to understand it, trying to find elements that would help shape my p...more
Jun 23, 2013Florencia rated it it was amazingIn league with Pessoa’s Book of Disquiet and Dostoevsky’s Raskolnikov, Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf is about a suicidal guy who never actually commits suicide, a tortured soul who struggles with the dualism of his nature, from the human to the wolf, from the classical to the romantic, to the spiritual to the sinful, from the life of the mind to the life of the body. I read this three times when I was 18-20, trying to understand it, trying to find elements that would help shape my p...more
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Shelves: philosophyland, favorites, german-austrian
Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.
I wrote a review a couple of weeks ago and I am still not sure about sharing it. It is too personal. This book is so close to my heart and my first review reflects that; a little too much. I mean, I didn't know what to expect and it blew me away. It is a fascinating work ab...more
Recommends it for: people interested in the complexity of life
I've read a few of Hesse's novels and I keep coming back to Steppenwolf time and time again. It's not as if books like Demian and Beneath the Wheel aren't worthwhile, either. It's just that there is something so grabbing and memorable about Steppenwolf. I was truly changed after I read this and I can't really say that for the majority of the books I've read.
One thing I think Hesse was obsessed with a little is the duality of life-the light and the dark side. Steppenwolf takes you to some dark ca...more
One thing I think Hesse was obsessed with a little is the duality of life-the light and the dark side. Steppenwolf takes you to some dark ca...more
May 20, 2014Owlseyes inside Notre Dame, it's so strange a 15-hour blaze and...30-minutes wait to call the firemen...and rated it really liked it
Personality should be integral, some psychoanalysts suggest.
Here we have an old, solitary and independent man ruminating upon his self, or his selves; a part human, and another one wolf-like.
Is he alienated? Is it a midlife crisis? An existential one? Do those parts cooperate with each other? Or, are they set apart, conflicting?
He just had a normal, gently-killing-time day. This is how the book introduces us to this character. One hot bath, some breathing exercises, some meditation,…old-bo...more
Here we have an old, solitary and independent man ruminating upon his self, or his selves; a part human, and another one wolf-like.
Is he alienated? Is it a midlife crisis? An existential one? Do those parts cooperate with each other? Or, are they set apart, conflicting?
He just had a normal, gently-killing-time day. This is how the book introduces us to this character. One hot bath, some breathing exercises, some meditation,…old-bo...more
Jul 28, 2019David H rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
گفته بودم برای ریویو نوشتن به چند روز زمان نیاز دارم چون وقتی تموم شد خیلی فکر و روحم رو درگیر و خسته کرده بود، هیچی نمیتونستم در موردش بگم، ولی حالا اینجوری شروع میکنم:
گرگ بیابان اثر هرمان هسه (بهترین کتاب سال ۹۸ تا اینجا)
نوروز ۹۸ وقتی آنا کارنینا رو شروع کردم به خودم گفتم این بهترین کتابیه که امسال میخونم و همینطور هم شد، آنا کارنینا، شاهکار تولستوی بزرگ، از همه نظر تا الان بهترین رمانی هست که امسال خوندم، ولی،،، اینجا یه ولی بزرگ هست، ولی وقتی به موضوع مورد بحث میرسیم، هرمان هسه دست روی نقطها...more
گرگ بیابان اثر هرمان هسه (بهترین کتاب سال ۹۸ تا اینجا)
نوروز ۹۸ وقتی آنا کارنینا رو شروع کردم به خودم گفتم این بهترین کتابیه که امسال میخونم و همینطور هم شد، آنا کارنینا، شاهکار تولستوی بزرگ، از همه نظر تا الان بهترین رمانی هست که امسال خوندم، ولی،،، اینجا یه ولی بزرگ هست، ولی وقتی به موضوع مورد بحث میرسیم، هرمان هسه دست روی نقطها...more
Jul 23, 2014Andrei Tamaş rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Recomand acest roman tuturor celor care vor să descopere infernul dinlăuntrul lor.
Mi-am propus de foarte multe ori să scriu o recenzie asupra romanului 'Lupul de stepă' de Hesse. Mă obseda însă ideea că nu aș fi capabil, că nu aș putea spune tot ce aș vrea să spun, că n-aș găsi cuvintele necesare pentru a descrie această carte. Ieșind din aura ei și scriind DESPRE ea, mi-e frică de faptul că o să-i ciopârțesc valoarea (nu sunt deloc un bun sculptor).
Poate cuvintele mele de mai sus nu înseamnă n...more
Mi-am propus de foarte multe ori să scriu o recenzie asupra romanului 'Lupul de stepă' de Hesse. Mă obseda însă ideea că nu aș fi capabil, că nu aș putea spune tot ce aș vrea să spun, că n-aș găsi cuvintele necesare pentru a descrie această carte. Ieșind din aura ei și scriind DESPRE ea, mi-e frică de faptul că o să-i ciopârțesc valoarea (nu sunt deloc un bun sculptor).
Poate cuvintele mele de mai sus nu înseamnă n...more
Nov 09, 2017peiman-mir5 rezakhani rated it really liked it · review of another edition
دوستانِ گرانقدر، بدونِ تردید خواندنِ این کتاب میتواند کاری با ذهنِ شما انجام دهد که ساعت ها بر روی جملات و موضوع داستان و حتی استعاره های به کار رفته بیاندیشید... <هرمان هسه> با خلاقیت و هنرمندی بسیار زیاد، این داستان را به نوعی نوشته است که شما نمی دانید آیا عناصر و شخصیت های داستان، خیالی هستند و یا واقعی.. آیا هسه آنها را ساخته است و یا شخصیتِ اصلی داستان آنها را در نوشته ها و خاطراتش جای داده است.... درکل کتابی چالش برانگیز است که جملات فلسفی و موضوعاتی روانشناسانه در دلِ خود جای داده...more
Now that I’ve reached middle age, I thought it was time to revisit that classic of earnest adolescent angst (despite the fact the novel’s hero is nearly 50 years old), Hermann Hesse’ Steppenwolf.
I found the early sections of the book dull, flat, pretentious, and swimming in its own vanity. But the later sections corrected some of these faults, and made the book interesting and worth reading overall.
My main problem with the early parts of Steppenwolf is that the novel is constantly tells us how f...more
I found the early sections of the book dull, flat, pretentious, and swimming in its own vanity. But the later sections corrected some of these faults, and made the book interesting and worth reading overall.
My main problem with the early parts of Steppenwolf is that the novel is constantly tells us how f...more
Sep 14, 2016Eirini D rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Ο λύκος της στέπας γεννάει στον αναγνώστη αμέτρητα ερωτήματα ενώ δίνει πολύ λιγότερες ή λιγότερο ξεκάθαρες απαντήσεις. Θα πρέπει να ζούμε, ακολουθώντας τα κοινωνικά στερεότυπα και πρότυπα, την κοινή αντίληψη και λογική που θα μας οδηγήσουν σε μια συμβατική μεν αλλά λιγότερο επώδυνη διαβίωση δε, ή όπως το πνεύμα, τα ένστικτα και η συνείδησή μας, μάς ορίζουν; Και αν επιλέξουμε να ζούμε όπως εμείς θέλουμε, πράγμα σχετικό γιατί έχουμε μεγαλώσει και γαλουχηθεί σύμφωνα με τις κοινωνικές επιταγές και ε...more
Mar 29, 2015Junta rated it it was amazing · review of another editionRecommends it for: Those who regret, those who have shied away from life
Recommended to Junta by: The Glass Bead Game, Florencia's review
Shelves: german, translated, swiss, 5-star, favourites
Part 1: A relevant tabletop game (December 27, 2015): (view spoiler)[
One of the tabletop (board/card) games I've played the most over the last couple of years (probably over 100 times) is One Night Ultimate Werewolf, which is in the category of social deduction games. Some of you may be familiar with Mafia, the pioneer game in the field conceived in the 80's. In the Werewolf versions that are popular nowadays, each person is dealt one character card at the beginning, which assigns them a role as...more
Dec 24, 2015Parthiban Sekar rated it it was amazing · review of another editionOne of the tabletop (board/card) games I've played the most over the last couple of years (probably over 100 times) is One Night Ultimate Werewolf, which is in the category of social deduction games. Some of you may be familiar with Mafia, the pioneer game in the field conceived in the 80's. In the Werewolf versions that are popular nowadays, each person is dealt one character card at the beginning, which assigns them a role as...more
Shelves: favorites, german, must-read, read-again
“Life is not an epic poem with heroic roles”
But full of sheep and wolves, forming the human life. These wolves are not “Born to be wild”, but alienated for their hunger to find the meaning in everything. For the sake of argument, I am going to singularize the pack of wolves to a single, certain wolf - STEPPENWOLF. And you are allowed to assume any arbitrary number of sheep and if required, a mama sheep can be also brought in for contentment and coziness. Well, Isn’t this how the stories have be...more
But full of sheep and wolves, forming the human life. These wolves are not “Born to be wild”, but alienated for their hunger to find the meaning in everything. For the sake of argument, I am going to singularize the pack of wolves to a single, certain wolf - STEPPENWOLF. And you are allowed to assume any arbitrary number of sheep and if required, a mama sheep can be also brought in for contentment and coziness. Well, Isn’t this how the stories have be...more
May 04, 2016Jenny rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
'Ν'αγαπάς ιδεαλιστικά και τραγικά,ω ναι,φίλε μου,αυτό ξέρεις να το κάνεις άψογα,δεν αμφιβάλλω καθόλου,σου βγάζω το καπέλο.Τώρα θα μάθεις ν'αγαπάς και λίγο πιο συνηθισμένα και ανθρώπινα.'
Αυτό το βιβλίο με ανάγκασε να προβληματιστώ και να σταματήσω αρκετές φορές κατά τη διάρκεια της ανάγνωσης,είτε για να αντιγράψω αποσπάσπατα που μου άρεσαν,είτε για να σκεφτώ πάνω σ'αυτά.Είχα καιρό να αισθανθώ για ένα βιβλίο ότι ο κάθε άνθρωπος που το διαβάζει θα αποκομίσει και κάτι τελείως διαφορετικό,ότι αν βάλ...more
Jul 23, 2017Raha rated it liked it · review of another editionΑυτό το βιβλίο με ανάγκασε να προβληματιστώ και να σταματήσω αρκετές φορές κατά τη διάρκεια της ανάγνωσης,είτε για να αντιγράψω αποσπάσπατα που μου άρεσαν,είτε για να σκεφτώ πάνω σ'αυτά.Είχα καιρό να αισθανθώ για ένα βιβλίο ότι ο κάθε άνθρωπος που το διαβάζει θα αποκομίσει και κάτι τελείως διαφορετικό,ότι αν βάλ...more
Shelves: hermann-hesse, philosophy, fiction, classics
بالاخره تموم شد. برای خوندن این کتاب باید حوصله ی زیادی داشته باشید .قسمت اول کتاب فوق العاده خسته کننده و کشدار بود اما رفته رفته بهتر شد و در قسمت پایانی به اوج خودش رسید
به قول 'هسه' افراد کمی قادر به ارتباط برقرار کردن با این کتاب ، درک داستان و لذت بردن از اون هستن ... به همین خاطر این کتاب رو به هرکسی توصیه نمیکنم.خود من چیز زیادی از کتاب دستگیرم نشد و نتونستم اون جوری که انتظارش رو داشتم از داستان لذت ببرم
به قول 'هسه' افراد کمی قادر به ارتباط برقرار کردن با این کتاب ، درک داستان و لذت بردن از اون هستن ... به همین خاطر این کتاب رو به هرکسی توصیه نمیکنم.خود من چیز زیادی از کتاب دستگیرم نشد و نتونستم اون جوری که انتظارش رو داشتم از داستان لذت ببرم
Dec 21, 2018فايز غازي Fayez Ghazi rated it liked it · review of another edition
- 'ذئب البراري'، عنوان قد يوحي للقارئ بمغامرات وأحداث شتّى سيقبل عليها، لكن لا فهذه الرواية لعبة ذهنية بإمتياز بدايتها ونهايتها في عقل شخص واحد تتقارع فيه روحان (سأعود لذلك لاحقاً)، واحدة آنسة لطيفة واخرى همجية ذئبية، يبقى المقياس هو نسبة نجاح الكاتب في تسطير افكاره على الورق!
- بمكن تقسيم القصة الى ثلاثة اجزاء، القسم الأول يقدّم هاري هاللر بعيون ابن اخ صاحبة البناية التي استأجر غرفتين فيها، يقوم هذا القسم برسم الإطار الخارجي لهاري: الوصف الجسدي، طريقة حياته، وحدته، فوضوية غرفة معيشته، كتبه، قنان...more
Aug 09, 2013Jasmine rated it it was amazing · review of another edition- بمكن تقسيم القصة الى ثلاثة اجزاء، القسم الأول يقدّم هاري هاللر بعيون ابن اخ صاحبة البناية التي استأجر غرفتين فيها، يقوم هذا القسم برسم الإطار الخارجي لهاري: الوصف الجسدي، طريقة حياته، وحدته، فوضوية غرفة معيشته، كتبه، قنان...more
Shelves: 2014, auf-deutsch, fiction, modern-classics, swiss-authors, modernism
4.5 stars. Ich besuchte vor vielen Jahren Hesses Grab in Montagnola, las einen Teil seiner Tessiner Geschichten und ein paar Gedichte – doch bis jetzt habe ich nie einen Roman von ihm gelesen. Und das ist wahrscheinlich gut so. Denn hätte ich Hesses “Der Steppenwolf” in meinen Zwanzigern gelesen, mein Urteil über dieses Buch wäre wohl um einiges schlechter ausgefallen. Die Zeitlosigkeit dieser Erzählung ermöglicht es, mich rund 90 Jahre später als Frau mittleren Alters in die Gefühlswelt des Har...more
Apr 05, 2018Ivana Books Are Magic rated it really liked it
Possibly, my main issue with this book is that it was too similar to other Hesse's work I've read. Had this been the first Hesse's novel I've read, I'm sure that I would have been head over heels with it, but so it happens that it wasn't. It was my third novel by Hesse and for me personally, Steppenwolf and its theme of an isolated intellectual/misantropist didn't move me greatly, perhaps because I felt like I had heard it all before. While I was reading Steppenwolf, I had this deja vu sensation...more
Feb 14, 2017Semjon rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Wie viele andere Leser habe ich den STEPPENWOLF als Teenager gelesen und war damals begeistert. Hermann Hesse, verachtet von meiner Deutschlehrerin, zählte zu meinen liebsten Schriftstellern. Je größer die Abneigung der alten Dame war, desto stärker wurde meine Anhängerschaft. Deutsch war mein liebstes Fach. Sie wollte mich festnageln auf die Klassiker des 19. Jahrhunderts. Ich wollte Rebellion, wurde zornig, zog mich zurück und liebte es, meinen Böll, Hesse und Lenz als Einzelgänger zu lesen. I...more
May 13, 2016Χαρά Ζ. rated it really liked it · review of another edition
_Steppenwolf_
This is a great book. It really is. It is philosophical and spiritual and deep and it demands your attention while reading it. It is the kind of book that i would love and cherish and adore. But i could not connect with it. It seemed distant and i felt frustrated most of the time. I didn't have problems with it, it's just, I couldn't feel along with it. And on top of that, by the times i thought me and book started to communicate it started slipping away again. And again. And again....more
This is a great book. It really is. It is philosophical and spiritual and deep and it demands your attention while reading it. It is the kind of book that i would love and cherish and adore. But i could not connect with it. It seemed distant and i felt frustrated most of the time. I didn't have problems with it, it's just, I couldn't feel along with it. And on top of that, by the times i thought me and book started to communicate it started slipping away again. And again. And again....more
Mar 30, 2014Kaya rated it really liked it · review of another edition
It's 3.5 stars, actually. Ugh, will Goodreads ever add the half star rating?
“You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.”
It's a good book, but I don't think it can have the same influence as it have had 50 years ago. The first half is better than the second one, that is quite messy and confusing. I'm not sure what was Hesse's message, since he was extremely contradicting at times. 'Steppenwolf' is simply not my cup of tea.
Harry is 47 years old, has few buddies and those friendships...more
“You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.”
It's a good book, but I don't think it can have the same influence as it have had 50 years ago. The first half is better than the second one, that is quite messy and confusing. I'm not sure what was Hesse's message, since he was extremely contradicting at times. 'Steppenwolf' is simply not my cup of tea.
Harry is 47 years old, has few buddies and those friendships...more
Nov 15, 2011William2 rated it liked it · review of another edition
The novel starts well with a preface by the young man of the house where the Steppenwolf (Harry Haller) is lodging, but then bogs down in a long disquisition on Harry's suffering called 'The Treatise on the Steppenwolf.' I found these pages turgid and thought they might easily be skipped. It's not until Harry enters a dance hall around page 95 that we meet Hermine, who becomes a matriarchal-figure for him; Maria, who becomes his lover; and Pablo, the impresario who leads the band and become's Ha...more
Dec 13, 2017Oziel Bispo rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Harry Haller é um homem na casa dos 50 que decidiu que não quer mais viver. A razão disso é que ele não consegue se adequar à sociedade, as inovações aos costumes burgueses da época. Por isso prefere viver uma vida pacata, isolada, solitária como um lobo da estepe. Vive em um mundo de sonho e alucinação, um mundo simbólico e imaginário, sempre se sentindo estranho e deslocado em relação ao mundo ao seu redor. Um dia ele encontra Hermínia, uma prostituta intelectual, que vai guiá-lo ao mundo da...more
Oct 13, 2018مهرداد اصیل rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
خاطرۀ خواندن «گرگ بیابان» از وقتی که خواندمش با من است. اوایل سالهای دانشجویی با دوستانی میرفتیم دفتر خشایار دیهیمی. گپ میزدیم و حرفهاش از اوضاع سیاسی و اجتماعی رو میشنیدیم و یاد میگرفتیم. هر بار هم چند کتابی رو توصیه میکرد بخوانیم. کتابهای پیشنهادیاش اغلب رمان بود و «گرگ بیابان» از اصلیترین پیشنهادهاش بود با ترجمۀ مرحوم کیکاووس جهانداری.
حالا بعد از حدود هفت هشت سالی که گذشته باید بار دیگر بخوانمش و گمانم کمکم هم لزومش رو احساس میکنم و هم میلش رو. «گرگ بیابان» رمان عمیقی است دربارۀ زندگی و وضعی...more
حالا بعد از حدود هفت هشت سالی که گذشته باید بار دیگر بخوانمش و گمانم کمکم هم لزومش رو احساس میکنم و هم میلش رو. «گرگ بیابان» رمان عمیقی است دربارۀ زندگی و وضعی...more
Jul 23, 2019Paradoxe rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Θεωρώ ευρηματικό τον τρόπο που ξεκινάει το βιβλίο. Ο αφηγητής παρατηρεί και κατά ένα τρόπο, παρασιτεί, στη ζωή του αφηγούμενου. Ωθεί τον αναγνώστη, σκεπτικά να αναλάβει το ρόλο του παρατηρητή, του αφηγητή. Ακόμη και προτού φτάσει στις σημειώσεις, λέει πως δεν θα τις κρίνει κι όμως ήδη νουθετεί, ή πατρονάρει, με το κλειδί που ζητάει να χρησιμοποιήσει ο αναγνώστης – παρατηρητής. Αυτό που μοιάζει με παιχνίδισμα του φωτός ανάμεσα σε σκιές υφιστάμενων όγκων, είναι πως δεν εγκλωβίζεται ο Λύκος ανάμεσα...more
Sep 10, 2014Eadweard rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I felt this book.
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Hermann Hesse was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. His best known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game (also known as Magister Ludi) which explore an individual's search for spirituality outside society.
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