num_pages: 242
description: While it's good for a titter to picture Peter Weller in full RoboCop gear reading Hesse's classic novel of intellectual absorption with the primeval, it is not entirely necessary for full appreciation of his reading. Weller, who has a Midwestern folksy personability, reads Hesse less as a work of great literature than a philosophical manual, meant to be studied for personal improvement. Hesse can be forbidding, even for the teenage readers who often discover literature through him, so Weller wisely renders his novel familiar, comfortable and friendly. Currently wrapping up a Ph.D. at UCLA in Italian Renaissance art history, Weller has clearly been taking lessons in sounding professorial—entirely apropos here. (Apr.)Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
language: German
title: Der Steppenwolf
titlecomplete: Der Steppenwolf
characters: Maria, Pablo Soler, Harry Haller, Hermine
genres: Fiction, Philosophy, German Literature, Psychology, Literature, Classics, Novels, Germany, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 177222
publisher: Luchterhand/Suhrkamp Verlag