Steppenwolf
by Hermann Hesse
Harry Haller, the man who believes he is half wolf, and the Magic Theatre that shatters the idea of a single self. Hesse on the middle-aged crisis, the multiplicity of the self, and learning to laugh.
Read it if…
you are in a midlife crisis and want literature rather than advice.
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Skip it if…
you want Siddhartha's calm; this is turbulent.
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Three things you will actually use
- You are not two selves but a thousand.
- Learn to laugh at yourself.
- Despair is a door, not a wall.
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Read the Treatise on the Steppenwolf section.
Our verdict
The thousand selves.
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