The Glass Bead Game ( Das Glasperlenspiel ) was his last and consummate work. His early novels were traditional, but with the publication in 1919 of Demian, a Freudian study of adolescence with Nietzschean emphasis on the superior individual, he became an 'uninhibited innovator.' Each of his later novels, including Steppenwolf, Siddhartha and Narcissus and Goldmund, was a step in Hesse's determined search for the self. Summary Read our full plot summary and analysis of Steppenwolf, scene by scene break-downs, and more. Hesse was strongly influenced by his interest in music, the psychoanalytic theories of Jung and Eastern thought. Steppenwolf is a novel by Hermann Hesse that was first published in 1927. In 1919, as a protest against German militarism in the First World War, Hesse moved back to Switzerland where he lived in self-imposed exile until his death at the age of eighty-five in 1962. After his first novel Peter Camenzind was published in 1904, he devoted himself to writing. He intended to follow in his father's footsteps as a Protestant pastor and missionary, but rebelled against traditional academic education and instead worked for a while as a bookseller, antique dealer and mechanic. Steppenwolf is a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Hermann Hesse was born in Calw, Württemberg, in 1877. Steppenwolf was an American-Canadian rock band that was prominent from 1968 to 1972.
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