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Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
Critical acclaim, nobel prize winner, highly respected literature with a capital L etc etc, but is it worth a read?
In a translation by Martin Secker, Hesse's preoccupation with the battle between the intellectual and emotion life of man is explored in the tale of Harry Haller, a middle-aged self-inflicted misanthrope whose loathing of bourgouise society and the agony of the resulting separation from it is alleviated and - as informed by his admiration of Eastern mysticism - transformed when he meets Hermine, a strangely familiar young woman half his age who leads him into love and then beyond reality.
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