
' The unhappiness that I need & long for is of the kind that will let me suffer with eagerness & die with lust That is the unhappiness or happiness that I am waiting for' Alienated from society Harry Haller is the Steppenwolf wild strange & shy His despair & desire for death draw him into an enchanted Faust-like underworld Through a series of shadowy encounters romantic freakish & savage by turn Haller begins to rediscover the lost dreams of his youth Adopted by the Sixties counterculture Steppenwolf captured the mood of a disaffected generation that was beginning to question everything