STEPPENWOLF

Hermann Hesse 지음 | Émile Bernard 그림 | Basil Creighton 옮김

포레스트 위즈덤 2025년 09월 10일 출간

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"Steppenwolf" by Hermann Hesse is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story delves into the existential struggles of its main character, Harry Haller, nicknamed the "Steppenwolf," a solitary and intellectually gifted man wrestling with feelings of alienation, despair, and a divided self. The book explores his complex psyche, isolation from society, and search for meaning in a rapidly changing world. Readers interested in deep psychological introspection, inner conflicts, and explorations of spirituality and modern life may find this work compelling.
The opening of "Steppenwolf" presents a preface from an unnamed narrator who was once Harry Haller's lodging neighbor. Through his recollections, we learn about Haller's introverted, highly intellectual, but socially withdrawn nature, as well as the deep loneliness and inner turmoil that define his existence. The main narrative then moves to Haller's own voice, chronicling a day in his life filled with mundane routine, discontent, and the sense of being out of place among ordinary, "bourgeois" society. This sense of alienation culminates in a mysterious encounter with a sign for a "Magic Theatre," promising experiences "not for everybody" and "for madmen only," which sparks a new sense of possibility. The opening concludes with a treatise that philosophically describes Haller's dual nature (half-man, half-wolf), his struggle between intellectual desires and primal instincts, and his broader alienation from the norms of bourgeois society.

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HARRY HALLER’S RECORDS
FOR MADMEN ONLY
MAGIC THEATRE ENTRANCE NOT FOR EVERYBODY
FOR MADMEN ONLY!
ANARCHIST EVENING ENTERTAINMENT MAGIC THEATRE ENTRANCE NOT FOR EVERYBODY
TREATISE ON THE STEPPENWOLF
THE IMMORTALS
TO-NIGHT AT THE MAGIC THEATRE FOR MADMEN ONLY PRICE OF ADMITTANCE YOUR MIND. NOT FOR EVERYBODY. HERMINE IS IN HELL.
ALL GIRLS ARE YOURS ONE QUARTER IN THE SLOT
JOLLY HUNTING GREAT HUNT IN AUTOMOBILES
GUIDANCE IN THE BUILDING UP OF THE PERSONALITY. SUCCESS GUARANTEED
MARVELLOUS TAMING OF THE STEPPENWOLF
ALL GIRLS ARE YOURS
HOW ONE KILLS FOR LOVE
HARRY’S EXECUTION

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저자(글) Hermann Hesse

Hermann Karl Hesse (1877~1962) was a German-Swiss poet and novelist, and the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His interest in Eastern religious, spiritual, and philosophical traditions, combined with his involvement with Jungian analysis, helped to shape his literary work. His best-known novels include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, Narcissus and Goldmund, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge, and spirituality.
Hesse was born in 1877 in Calw, a town in Germany's Northern Black Forest. His father was a Baltic German and his grandmother had French-Swiss roots. As a child, he shared a passion for poetry and music with his mother, and was well-read and cultured, due in part to the influence of his polyglot grandfather.
As a youth, he studied briefly at a Protestant boarding school, the Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren, where he struggled with bouts of depression and once attempted suicide, which temporarily landed him in a sanatorium. Hesse completed Gymnasium and passed his examinations in 1893, when his formal education ended. An autodidact, Hesse read theological treatises, Greek mythology, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich Schiller, and Friedrich Nietzsche after his formal education concluded. His first works of poetry and prose were being published in the 1890s and early 1900s with his first novel, Peter Camenzind, appearing in 1904.

번역 Basil Creighton

그림/만화 Émile Bernard