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Great Books Disc Group - "Steppenwolf" by Hermann Hesse | |
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Event Type: Adults Age Group(s): Adults Date: 10/17/2017 Start Time: 7:00 PM End Time: 8:30 PM Description: Hermann Hesse's work Steppenwolf was first published in German in 1927, but what it contains is relevant today. It is the story of the lone individual, lost in the ironic good fortune and security of bourgeois banality and cultural conformity. The central character, Harry Haller, has all the insight, all the leisure, all the material goods he needs, yet he is not at peace with his life. His physical ailments are but symptoms of his true crisis, that of a lost soul, that of a life without meaning, that of a human without a love of humanity. Haller is torn by his love of comfort and safety and his deeper drive for a more authentically creative existence on the other. His tragic situation is born out of his inability to translate his blessings into love. Before his magical journey of discovery begins, he is nearly consumed by an almost suicidal paralysis in the face of that added dimension of existence which would bring it spiritual meaning.
Library: East Bank Regional Library
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Location: A/V Conference Room - 2nd Floor Contact: Gwen Kelley Contact Number: 504-838-1100 Presenter: Gwen Kelley |