An English-language translation that highlights both the thoughtfulness and, ultimately, the sheer personal power of the original. Beals has managed the considerable feat of making a cult classic of twentieth-century literature feel completely alive for the twenty-first.--Steve Donoghue "Open Letters Monthly"

Kurt Beals's splendid translation of this offbeat classic succeeds at once in conveying Hermann Hesse's German cadence in elegant English and in rendering the novel's dissonances more accessible for our times: the ambivalent, existential, dark, humorous, and magical elements within and surrounding protagonist Harry Haller. Together with the translator's dexterous introduction for a new generation of readers and those curious to revisit the book's multiple layers to unravel its fascinating possibilities, it is emphatically THE Steppenwolf.--Doreen Densky, New York University

A sharp, erudite new translation of Hesse's moody classic.--Susan Bernofsky, Columbia University, and translator of The Metamorphosis

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Pub date: 2025-03-25

Length: 256 pages