Ranked #5 in German, Ranked #9 in Existential — see more rankings.
Reviews and Recommendations
We've comprehensively compiled reviews of Steppenwolf from the world's leading experts.
Amanda Palmer Has a fantastical realism that pierces to the bottom of the psyche. I've re-read and re-read this sucker every five years. (Source)
Sanja Zepan Favourite non-business book would be Der Steppenwolf, by Hermann Hesse. It's a book that's often read by privileged people who feel misunderstood (usually teens), so everyone focuses on the first part about loneliness in the bourgeois world and forgets about the whole second part of the book that's about overcoming that and finding a sense of humour, a shift in perspective, and a bit of distance. Jack Kerouac even dismisses the book in the fashion of the precisely same intellectual hypocrisy this book talks about, which to me sounds like hipsters talking about how other people are hipsters... (Source)
Rankings by Category
Steppenwolf is ranked in the following categories:
- #24 in 1920S
- #23 in Existentialism
- #38 in Modernism
- #38 in Modernist
- #47 in Nepal
- #21 in Nobel
- #76 in Roman
- #75 in Surrealism