HERMANN HESSE
The unhappiness that I need and long for ...is of the kind that will let me suffer with eagerness and die with lust. That is the unhappiness or happiness that I am waiting for . Alienated from society Harry Haller is the Steppenwolf wild strange and shy. His despair and desire for death draw him into an enchanted Faust like underworld. Through a series of shadowy encounters romantic freakish and savage by turn Haller begins to rediscover the lost dreams of his youth. Adopted by the Sixties counterculture Steppenwolf captured the mood of a disaffected generation that was beginning to question everything.