Photo: Front cover of the Persian translation Hermann Hesse’s novel “Steppenwolf”. His best-known works also include “Siddhartha”, and “The Glass Bead Game” (also known as “Magister Ludi”) which explore an individual’s search for spirituality outside society. In 1946, Hesse received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Yet his novel can also be seen as a plea for rigorous self-examination and an indictment of the intellectual hypocrisy of the period.Īs Hesse himself remarked, “Of all my books Steppenwolf is the one that was more often and more violently misunderstood than any of the others.” This Faust-like and magical story is evidence of Hesse’s searching philosophy and extraordinary sense of humanity as he tells of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope. It is a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. “Steppenwolf” was wildly popular and has been a perpetual success across the decades, but Hesse later asserted that the book was largely misunderstood. The story in large part reflects a profound crisis in Hesse’s spiritual world during the 1920s. being the writer’s way to express his pain in the image of lonely wolf. His novels Steppenwolf, Demian, Siddhartha,The Glass Bead Game have sold in millions. The novel was named after the German name for the steppe wolf. Hermann Hesse’s creativity has explored the duality of nature and individual’s spiritual search, breaking all social rules. Originally published in Germany in 1927, it was first translated into English in 1929.

The Elmi Farhangi Publishing Company is the publisher of the book rendered by Keikavus Jahandari.Īt least three other Persian editions of the novel have previously been published in Iran. The city of Karlsruhe, Germany, also associates a Hermann Hesse prize.TEHRAN – A new Persian translation of German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse’s tenth novel “Steppenwolf” has been published in Iran. In 1964, people founded the Calwer Hermann-Hesse-Preis, awarded biennially, alternately to a German-language literary journal or to the translator of work of Hesse to a foreign language. Throughout Germany, people named many schools. Young Germans desiring a different and more 'natural' way of life at the time of great economic and technological progress in the country, received enthusiastically Peter Camenzind, first great novel of Hesse. In his time, Hesse was a popular and influential author in the German-speaking world worldwide fame only came later. Other best-known works of this poet, novelist, and painter include The Glass Bead Game, which, also known as Magister Ludi, explore a search of an individual for spirituality outside society. Harry Haller a frustrated artistic idealist confronts modern reality and consequently feels lonely desolation, causing him to call himself Steppenworl (wolf. Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946.

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