Steppenwolf: a new translation, contexts, criticism / Hermann Hesse ; translated and edited by Kurt Beals.
| Author/creator | Hesse, Hermann author. |
| Other author | Beals, Kurt, translator. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2025] |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | xxii, 293 pages ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The Text of The Steppenwolf -- Editor's Foreword -- Harry Haller's Notebooks -- Treatise on the Steppenwolf -- Harry Haller's Notebooks [continued] -- Contexts -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- From Faust, Part I -- "Dusk Has Fallen from on High" -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- [The Ego as a Multiplicity] -- "Solitary" -- From Beyond Good and Evil -- From Thus Spoke Zarathustra -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- From Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- Hermann Hesse -- The Wolf -- O Freunde, nicht diese Töne! -- From A Guest at the Spa -- [Foreword to The Steppenwolf] -- From Crisis: Pages from a Diary -- "Misgivings" -- "A Wretched Night" -- "After an Evening at the Stag" -- "After Reading Some Pages of 'Steppenwolf' to Friends" -- "The Seducer" -- "Late in the Night..." -- "Reaction to an Attack in the Daily Press" -- "Intimations" -- "Poor Devil on the Morning after the Masked Ball" -- "The End" -- "Postscript to My Friends" -- Harry, the Steppenwolf -- Afterword to The Steppenwolf -- Thomas Mann -- Letter to Hermann Hesse -- To Hermann Hesse on his Sixtieth Birthday -- Criticism -- The Wolf Man / Anonymous -- Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf: A Sonata in Prose/ Theodore Ziolkowski -- From Hermann Hesse: Poet of the Interior Journey / Timothy Leary and Ralph Metzner -- Jung's Concept of Individuation in Hesse's Steppenwolf / Edward Abood -- Harry Haller as "Höherer Mensch" : Nietzschean Themes and Motifs in Hermann Hesse's Der Steppenwolf / David Horrocks -- From The Refracted Self: Hermann Hesse, Der Steppenwolf / Mary E. Stewart -- The Lesson of the Magic Theater/ Janet Ward -- Hermann Hesse: A Chronology. |
| Abstract | "This Norton critical edition includes Kurt Beals's 2023 "splendid translation of this offbeat classic" (Doreen Densky, New York University), which restores much of Hesse's original meaning and language. Beals's compelling introduction, explanatory annotations, and note on the critical edition. Selections from texts that inspired Hesse (such as Goethe's Faust and works by Nietzsche), Hesse's related writings (including a short story and several poems), and correspondence from his contemporary Thomas Mann. Seven interpretations exploring philosophical and literary themes within the novel, ranging from one by Timothy Leary and Ralph Metzner on its psychedelic aspects to others focused on the central character's journey of Jungian self-discovery as dream and reality blend together." -- Back cover. |
| General note | Translated from the German. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Genre/form | Novels. |
| Genre/form | Romans. |
| ISBN | 0393888932 |
| ISBN | 9780393888935 |