![]() ![]() ![]() The book, with revisions, quickly became a classic of the counter-culture, reprinted every couple of years during the 60s and 70sĪ wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. It was republished, hitting the zeitgeist of a later generation of anti-establishmentarians, who found it chimed with their own criticisms of the establishment, early in the 1960s. It was originally published in Germany, between the wars, when an aggrieved sense of injustice and a looking for someone to blame was beginning to become fuel for a later conflict. It has been impossible, on this re-read, to separate it both from the time and place of its writing and its popular reprintings. Re-reading Hermann Hesse’s 1927 book Steppenwolf, which I last read I surmise in my twenties, has been an interesting experience. ![]()
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