“You mean a name, and fame with posterity?” Nothing but death’, Hermine says after a long philosophical monologue To the rest, to the real men belongs nothing. ‘Time and the world, money and power, belong to the small people, and the shallow people. The conversation on page 178 about the existence is a winner. Strangely, the 253-page book has two chapters only. You should read.Īs a lover of philosophy and poetry, this book resonated with me from reading one part of a conversation What follows is a huge awakening which the book describes interestingly. For once, he rediscovers the joys of youth. But a chance meeting with a lady, Hermine, in a bar changes the course of his outlook on life. Haunted by the pain of gout, divorced from his wife and away from his children he travels the world and is always far away from the merrymaking of every day. Sickly (gout) and suicidal, he doesn’t desire any joy anymore. Harry Haller is a man who has resigned to fate. Steppenwolf is a book about a good boy turned bad, or rather an old man who has lived his life as a shy and anti-social man suddenly discovering the joys of youth in old age.
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