A stroke of luck for a master work, a book of education ... Camus said something like that if you wanted to be a philosopher had to write novels ... Steppenwolf is a revelation in the sense that can be transformed completely into the main character: Harry Haller, if one has a tad descillé eyes ... It means to look but without concessions, laughing ...
I do not know the writer's career and yet he must not be negligible in the sense that it leads us into an almost initiatory journey ...
ideas, reason, philosophy, life, death, suicide, Dionysian thiasos, the magical theater, laughter, all the ingredients of a magical journey as the mystics can live ... or schizophrenic. .. according to ..
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Harry Haller, fiftieth had staked everything on the Beautiful, Art, Ideas, in short, the Intellect, before giving the decisive blow razor face a world that has become absurd, a world that only brought suffering and him disillusionment ... he comes across the story of Steppenwolf and evening for fools where only admitted Fools ... and her life will take a decisive turn, a quest for the grail modern, genuine Initiation in its meaning noble meeting with Hermine, sort of mystical beloved consort both opposite and necessary complement, which will show him life in a different way with its amusements but whose outcome will be fatally, as his meeting with pablo authentic modern shaman ... the Fool and the Genie does not he wanders on the same tightrope?
The magic theater, hell, the ear of corn of Eleusis symbolized by the many "me," he met many famous people, unspoken, non-facts finally realized, psychotropic ...
Better than Papus, Crowley and Castaneda met ...
The book was hailed upon its release in 1927, between the wars but prohibits and because by the Nazi regime.
The steppe wolf puts us a mirror before our eyes, that of Wolf, antagonisms ambiguities of our soul, of guilt, desires, despair ... who wear our face and we breeze uncompromising ...
A cult book that just discovered and which I bought other works with Demian and Siddhartha Others, I think he will understand much for the casual reader but also certainly to the person "committed" ...
