In Hesse's novels, we meet Hermann Hesse the man in all his emotional intensity, fierce spiritual struggle and so experience most completely the inner turmoil. The problems and oppertunities such as fusion of East and West arouses are explored with complex and laconic elegance in Hermann Hesse's great novel especially The Steppenwolf. Hermann Hesse’s voice is particularly necessary because it speaks with deep sincerity of one of the key spiritual adventures of last hundred years, that of fusing together the best of the Western philosophical and mystery traditions with the highest understanding of unity and divine identity of the East.
As the great deciding crisis of our civilization continues to explode, the wisdom of voices like Hermann Hesse’s wisdom like a dry but rich old red wine becomes ever rarer and ever more important. Hermann Hesse ‘s The Steppenwolf addresses division within the self and society, and the effects such divisions can have on an individual, such as loneliness, self-mutilation, and possible suicide. Hermann Hesse (2 July 1877-9 August 1962) was a German born Swiss poet, novelist and Painter. The Internal Conflict between the Body and the Soul in Hermann Hesse’s the Steppenwolf
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