'The unhappiness that I need and long for . . . is of the kind that will let me suffer with
eagerness and die with lust. That is the unhappiness or happiness that I am waiting
for.'Alienated from society Harry Haller is the Steppenwolf wild strange and shy. His
despair and desire for death draw him into an enchanted Faust-like underworld. Through a
series of shadowy encounters romantic freakish and 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.
