"Most people don't want to swim until they learn to swim," or Steppenwolf from 1929.

 

"How can I not be a steppe wolf and a ragged hermit, since I live in a world whose goals I do not share, whose joys are all alien to me. I cannot sit in the theater or the cinema for a long time. I can barely read a newspaper, less often a modern book. ..). And indeed, if this world is right, if this cafe music is right, if these mass pleasures and these Americanized people, so undemanding, are right, then I'm wrong, I'm a madman, a real a steppe wolf, as I have often called myself, a stray animal in a strange and incomprehensible world that will no longer find a homeland, no air, or food. "

"You are for this simple, comfortable world of today, satisfied with anything, too demanding and too hungry, he spits you out, you have one dimension too much for him /"

"Most people don't want to swim until they learn to swim. Of course people don't want to swim. They were born for the earth, not for water. Of course they don't want to think because they were made to live, not to think. thinks who makes thinking the most important thing may go far in this area, but such a person has turned the earth into water and must someday drown. "

Hermann Karl Hesse, ps. "Emil Sinclair" (born July 2, 1877 in Calw, died August 8, 1962 in Montagnoli in the canton of Ticino) - German prose writer, poet and essayist with pacifist views. Occasionally also a draftsman and painter.

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. On the basis of the justification of the jury, he received it "for inspirational creativity, which in its development towards boldness and depth represents both the classical ideals of the humanist and the high values ​​of style" for "nobly sublime and varied poetry, which always she stood out for her freshness of inspiration and a rare purity of spirit ”, as well as for“ epic and dramatic talent ”.

Author of novels about an existential context, referring to Buddhist philosophy and psychoanalysis, the theme of which is usually a solitary search for harmony and spiritual depth in conflict with society (Steppe Wolf, Siddhartha). According to Thomas Mann, his works belong to "the greatest and purest achievements of our era".

Source: wikipedia.org.

The book is moving, legendary and universal, appreciated both by the critics and the readers, therefore it is included in the strict canon of belles-lettres. Everyone should read it, maybe it will make us realize our place in the modern world ...

HESSE HERMANN

Steppen wolf

Novel

First Polish edition

Translated from the German by Jozef Wittlin

Warsaw 1929, Tow. Publishing House "Rój", pp. 304 [4], format 12x19 cm 

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