A solitary, suicidal intellectual who thinks of himself as half man, half wolf is drawn out of his isolation by a dance-hall woman into jazz clubs, drugs, and a hallucinatory Magic Theater confronting his fractured self.
Books mentioned in Steppenwolf (1)
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “If "Faust," is treated in this way, Faust, Mephistopheles, Wagner and the rest form a unity and a supreme individuality”