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    El Lobo Estepario
    El Lobo Estepario
    El Lobo Estepario
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    El Lobo Estepario

    Written by Hermann Hesse

    Narrated by Daniel Quintero

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    La novela que influenció toda una generación. El Lobo estepario es una de las grandes novelas del premio Nobel de 1946 Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), por tratar en forma profunda el tema del antagonismo entre las dos naturalezas de un individuo, en este caso Harry Haller, una persona desilusionada de la vida, que alterna la que se considera naturaleza bondadosa del ser humano con la ferocidad que caracteriza al lobo estepario. El misticismo y fantasía en que se desarrolla la obra, además de los conceptos que se derivan de ella, tuvo influencia en la forma de pensar y de comportarse de los jóvenes de los años cincuentas, que se veían reflejados en la personalidad dual de Haller.
    LanguageEspañol
    PublisherYOYO USA
    Release dateDec 12, 2006
    ISBN9781611553970
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    Hermann Hesse

    Hermann Hesse was born in 1877. His books include Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, Narcissus and Goldmund, and Magister Ludi. He died in 1962.

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    • 1/5
      No es tan buen libro como me dieron que era. Tal vez en la adolescencia lo hubiera apreciado.
    • 4/5
      Excelente mensaje! Para analizar profundamente y sacar conclusiones de lo q hacemos con nuestras vidas
    • 4/5
      Una mariguanada... Jajaja. Te puedes enfrentar a ti mismo de otra forma.
    • 3/5
      Bevreemdend verhaal, vooral het slot, ligt in de lijn van absurd theater. Gaat vooral over midlifecrisis en strijd tegen burgerlijkheid. 3 perspectieven, dus aansluiting bij modernisme.
    • 5/5
      Beautiful Herman Hesse. One of my all-timers. I think I'll go blow my brains out now.
    • 5/5
      Excelente lectura. Voz agradable y nítida. Texto maravilloso y sabio.
    • 5/5
      Muy entretenido, me quedé con ganas de más de este maravilloso libro.
    • 5/5
      Es un libro bastante bueno que aborda temas acerca de la personalidad para quien le entiende y que se encuentra en un caso similar al personaje del lobo estepario para una persona con muchas capacidades en algunos ámbitos de la vida y muy disminuido en ámbitos más mundanos es un libro excelente
    • 1/5
      I don't know if anyone else has this, but when I graduated with my English lit degree I thought, right. I've done it. I have in my hands the key to any text, anywhere, and damn it I will appreciate every text for something about it, whether it be the brilliance of the writing or the social context or just having fun ripping it apart. And then I got onto my MA and discovered I was wrong, of course, that I could still find any given book stultifyingly boring regardless of any merit I tried to find within its pages. I'm looking at you, Mists of Avalon.

      Well, yeah. That's me and Steppenwolf, too. It's a good chunk of I-don't-get-it -- I mean, I understand Hermann Hesse's intentions and all that, but maybe he's right that I'm too young for it. The prose is just boring, which might be partly the translator's fault (my edition is ancient and does not name the translator). Well, actually, I found the content kind of boring, too. Yep, even the drugs and sex and so on.

      So. Chalk that down to a one-star due to not-for-me.
    • 5/5
      El increíble viaje al mundo interior del escritor
    • 5/5
      Una genialidad de escritor y libro.
    • 2/5
      Der deutsche Paul Coelho vermied kontroverse Standpunkte und trotzdem wurde dieses Buch in den 60ern zu einem Rebellen- oder Individualistenroman hochstilisiert. Der Soundtrack zum Kultfilm "Easy Rider" tat wohl sein übriges. Dabei werden hier keine heiligen Kühe geschlachtet. Der Protagonist greift oberflächlich die üblichen Verdächtigen an, Journalisten, Philister, Mitläufer, Spießer. Diese Entrüstung bleibt auf einem so einfachen Niveau, dass jeder Vertreter dieser Gruppen sie sofort am Stammtisch bekräftigen würde, weil er sich instinktiv nicht zu den Attackierten zählen würde. Und sie finden dabei deftigere Worte und entrüsten sich auf unterhaltsamere Weise als Hesse in seinem manierierten Schreibstil.Neben der 0815-Gesellschaftskritik gibts noch das spirituelle Geschwafel, Hesses Signatur. Zum Beispiel, dass Menschen viel komplizierter sind, als man sprachlich überhaupt beschreiben kann, und wir deshalb irreführende psychologische Vereinfachungen vornehmen. Dies und viele andere Kalenderweisheiten taugen leider nicht zum Weltklassiker-Status. Und wo Hesse ausgefallene Ideen zu haben scheint, sind diese von anderen, größeren Autoren ausgeliehen. So nimmt Hesse den prägnanten Aphorismus von Nietzsche (z.B. Nr 157 aus "Jenseits von Gut und Böse": "Der Gedanke an den Selbstmord ist ein starkes Trostmittel: mit ihm kommt man gut über manche böse Nacht hinweg.") und verschmiert ihn gierig über viele Seiten hinweg, lässt den Protagonisten endlos darüber schwafeln, bis man sich wünscht, Hesse wäre nie mit Nietzsches Ideen in Kontakt gekommen.Ich verstehe ja, dass viele sich mit den Ansichten und dem Protagonisten in diesem Buch identifizieren können. Aber Hesse lässt ja kaum Spielraum für Widerspruch. Er geht keine Risiken ein. Ein wirklich gutes Buch sollte den Leser herausfordern, reizen. Es gibt keine Szene, bei der der Leser gezwungen wird, in sich zu gehen und seine eigene Einstellung zu überprüfen. Hesse geht bei allem auf Nummer sicher. Das gibt dem ganzen eine schleimige Note und erinnert mich an evangelische Pastorenpredigten.Anders als Dostojewski in "Aufzeichnungen aus dem Kellerloch" zieht Hesse seinen Protagonisten Harry (fastehste? Hermann - Harry :D:D) nicht durch den Kakao, sondern lässt ihn wie Ebenezer Scrooge auf eine Reihe von "einfachen Leuten" treffen, die ihn etwas lockerer werden lassen. Der Kitsch-Faktor wird dadurch enorm erhöht: die edlen Wilden bringen dem einsiedlerischen Kauz bei, das Leben trotz aller Fehler zu genießen. Die Heiligen Mozart und Goethe fungieren als Geister der gegenwärtigen oder der vergangenen Weihnacht, nerven mit ihren onkelhaften Bemerkungen. Zum Ende hin wirds psychedelischer. War es das, was die Hippies so an dem Buch mochten? Harry betritt eine Art Untergrundclub und fühlt sich wohl, so vereint mit der hedonistischen Unterschicht, die er sonst eigentlich verachtet. Die Szenen wirken kleinkariert. Auf die heutige Zeit übertragen zieht er sich ein T-Shirt mit Wolfsmotiv an, schmeißt ein Paar Teile und tanzt mit Glowsticks zu irgendwelchem Eurotrance. Aber Hesse schreibt dem ganzen einen hohen spirituellen Wert zu. Hesse war also der geistige Urvater der Loveparade. Später betritt Harry ein Kuriositätenkabinett, das wie das Holodeck auf Raumschiff Enterprise funktioniert. Echt anmutende Szenarien, die ihm wie Gleichnisse tiefe Wahrheiten vermitteln sollen oder ihn an Schlüsselerlebnisse in seinem Leben zurückerinnern. Ich muss zugeben, das hat mir gut gefallen. Leider kommt bald wieder der passiv aggressive Geist von Mozart hinzu und macht Harry klar, dass er immer noch nicht cool genug für das alles sei. Aufgrund des extrem guten aber unbegründeten Weltrufs ist dieser Roman leider die Blaupause für eine Menge Schrott geworden, der wie eine Plage durch die Bestsellerlisten zieht. Generationen von Schülern werden geradezu verdorben, da sich das Rezept dieses Buchs besonders einfach vermitteln lässt. Als gelungenere Romane über verkopfte Outsider empfehle ich das schon erwähnte "Aufzeichnungen aus dem Kellerloch" sowie Canettis "Die Blendung". Und Philosophisch und spirituell liegen mir die Schriften von Nietzsche und Henry Miller näher als Hermann "Dr Motte" Hesse.
    • 5/5
      Qué bien lo relata, quiero ser relatora . El lobo estepario es famosa lo leería porque tiene un carácter ontológico y literario.
    • 3/5
      My best friend left this book at my house just before he left for the Peace Corps. That was almost two years ago. He'll be coming back from Mali at the end of the summer. I'd been thinking about him a lot, so I decided to read something he's read, to get into his head for a few hours. Before he left, we almost got the cover of this book tattooed on ourselves. Each of us would've gotten half, sort of like one of those friendship pendants little girls used to wear, only with blood and needles.I don't know how much my fondness for my dear friend colored my impressions of this book, but I thought it was fantastic. Harry's suffering really struck something inside of me and I've been feeling the reverberations ever since. Harry has some issues with the duality of his own nature, feeling that he is being torn between his "man" self and his "wolf" self. The human side of him is concerned with appearances and propriety and is constantly ravaged by guilt. His animalistic side, what Freud would refer to as his id, is rather clear about its desires. Harry is unable to reconcile these two aspects of himself, but clearly sees how they are intertwined. He cannot surrender to either side. He can't experience true happiness or true morality. As a result, he is unable to be content with anything.Harry continues in this manner until he meets a woman in a bar who then introduces him to a couple of her friends. Through them, he experiences unattached sex, drugs, and other youthful pastimes that he previously considered to be wasteful and overindulgent. He enjoys himself, but cannot succumb completely to this new way of life. He feels out of place and guilty. He hangs in there, though, as anyone will when there's someone he's immensely attracted to guiding the way.Harry confronts and makes major steps towards accepting himself in a metaphorical magic theatre introduced to him by a drug peddling jazz musician. He faces each aspect of himself and begins to understand the role each part of him plays. He, in essence, learns objectively of his suffering. This whole part of the novel was trippy and interesting. It was kind of like a Stephen King book in the sense that everything seems normal, but all of a sudden your protagonist just happens to walk into a painting (Rose Madder).After reading a Buddhist meditation manual, Hesse's Eastern themes made a lot of sense to me. The women he befriends are enlightened. They are completely aware of the impermanence of life and, as a result, live it to the fullest and take things as they come. They don't form attachments to anything and experience true happiness. Harry is their polar opposite, attached to everything and suffering greatly. His mind is so deeply rooted in his suffering that his greatest punishments are the same as his greatest desires. I appreciated the homoerotic undertones. They were quite amusing to me and gave the story some added depth. When Pablo suggests that he and Harry get it on with Maria, Harry is vehemently opposed. Yet, Hermine, Harry's great love, is simply a feminized version of Herman, his childhood friend. He even mistakes her for Herman, as they look so much alike. Harry shows that he begins to accept this part of himself too when he is in the house of mirrors, saying that he finally understood just what Pablo was suggesting.All in all, this book was very well written and very interesting. It got me thinking and left me thinking, even if the ending was a bit abrupt.
    • 4/5
      Excelente audio, sin interrupciones, funcionó al 100, me gustó Ü.
    • 4/5
      This is a book on my read again list - I'm not sure if I liked it, but it is definitely worthy of the praise it gets. As for the writing, it starts off easily enough, we have a young lodger reading the diary and manuscripts of the man who calls himself "Steppenwolf". He feels that he is part man, but part solitary animal, snarling at those around him. As we learn about Steppenwolf, also known as Harry Haller, we learn about an intellectual man who has some standing in the literature and university circles and wrote an essay about his concerns with the rising jingoism in his country and the rise of extreme nationalism. This essay ruins his life - from a divorce, to diatribes in the paper about how he is a traitor to his country. Harry is also a man who thinks himself above all the rabble, from comments on the popular music of the day, to how music should be listened to (not on phonograph). He has a fascination with the middle class, not part of it, but wanting to be part of humanity.As for themes, I find it interesting that Mr. Hesse saw the extreme nationalism that happened between World War One and Two in Germany. But more interesting was how Harry was written - as a man who hadn't lived. He spent his time trying to rise above average, but completely missing what it means to be human. His relationship with the Hermine brings him back to life, where he is able to feel and love, something he hadn't felt since he was a child.Now, the ending. I'm not sure what it means, maybe madness, maybe a path of sanity. Maybe its Hell, making Pablo the Devil.
    • 5/5
      "Nothing felt the least bit attractive; every thing had the smell of stale second-hand goods, of stale, lukewarm contentment."A mess of thoughts.Lone wolf in a city. Human in the streets. The bourgeois society.Anguished. Tormented. Conflicted. Alienated. Scorned.When the weight of existence was as heavy as the steps you take to move forward, why was there still a need to move forward?Steppenwolf was not as much as finding a purpose but rather on the experience of knowing that life has no purpose. A pretty bleak and grim ensemble of emotions. A call and easy acceptance of death yet a fervent desire to master greatness through intellectual immortality; the inclusion and love of Goethe and Mozart; the hatred of Jazz music and technology. These were two identities of Harry clashing together, contradicting each other. But like most things, they did not fit into the binary. It was a reflection in the mirror only to be broken down into pieces to find hundreds of one's reflections. Who should you believe in? Everything was a part of you. ** "Pay at the door with your mind." The mind was indeed one of the most difficult foes but a friend for most of its illusions.You were the predator of your own self.What was absolutely resonating, overwhelming, was the feeling of homelessness despite life's stability in this novel. Although there was an undeniable depressive quality in Steppenwolf, which was largely impactful and gnawed at you (that reading it after Laing's The Lonely City gave me a relapse which I dreaded but thankfully was able to handle with relief), it ended in believing in our innermost potential; to be one with the 'Immortals'. Surprisingly, it reminded me of The Beatles' lyrics "Try to realize it's all within yourself, no one else can make you change. And to see you're really only very small and life flows on within you and without you."
    • 5/5
      I read this book for the first time some 40 years ago in a Spanish translation. I didn't remember almost anything about it, except that it had made a great impression in my youth and that I had felt a great affinity for Harry Haller and his solitude. I bought this edition some ten years ago during one of my trips to Germany and it had been sitting on my shelves ever since. A few days ago I was rearranging some of my books and came across it, so I decided to finally read it again.I had read "Knulp" in the original German before so I knew Hesse' prose was clear and to my level of fluency. This time around being older, the nihilism, the ennui and the Weltschmerz of Haller still leaves a profound impression, but this time I noticed that despite its darkness and the general perception about this novel being all about nihilism and suicide, in the end it's an affirmation of life and is misunderstood the same way that a lot of people misunderstand Nietzsche.Harry's alienation from the world starts at an early age when conventional values are "beaten into him". His embrace of intellectual pursuits and high culture further alienates him from his inner wolf. The section where Hesse describes the duality of our civilized exterior and inner beast is brilliant. It's this inability to accept his duality, or more correctly the multiplicity of inner Harry's, that makes him fall into despair and contemplate suicide. Salvation comes from the acceptance of sensuality and "low culture" (jazz and dancing) and realizing, thanks to his conversation with Mozart during a drug induced hallucination, that he can have both.This is short novel and definitely worth reading.
    • 5/5
      Steppenwolf came at the right time. Harry Heller's manuscript explicates the struggle to live in the tension between the finite and eternity without falling back on platitudes, rather acknowledging the multiplicity of experience and the ease of death versus the struggle to live. In fact, it seems to me that this manuscript could only end with a phantasmagoric episode that leaves as many questions as answers. It's the pursuit of those questions that has tremendous value.
    • 3/5
      Well, that was an unexpected read. I read this because it was one of those classic novels that you can tell people that you've read and make you sound intelligent and well-read (that's the theory anyway). "Steppenwolf" starts very, very slowly and more than once I was tempted to cast it aside and read a cricket book instead. However I persevered and (spoiler alert) found the ending strange and incomprehensible.
    • 5/5
      Nach 25 Jahren habe ich das Buch wieder gelesen – und habe es völlig anders wahrgenommen als damals.Als Teenager war ich völlig fasziniert, teilte Hallers Weltverachtung, fühlte mich selbst als Steppenwolf und las begierig und staunend die mystischen Anteile, fand dort ungeheure Weisheit. Heute kommen mir die antibürgerlichen Aspekte etwas zu theatralisch vor, und Weisheit und Faszination finde ich weniger im magischen Theater (obwohl es mich weiterhin begeisterte) als in der Lebensweisheit Hermines, im Weg des Steppenwolfs heraus aus Eigenbrötlerei und Vereinsamung: Das Ganzwerden, das er zum Ende des Buches längst nicht vervollständigt hat, das Gesundwerden trotz Verzweiflung an der Menschheit, der Humor.Auch wenn ich die Geschichte vom Steppenwolf heute bei weitem nicht mehr so vergöttere wie damals: Ein Erlebnis bleibt sie allemal. Unbedingte Empfehlung!
    • 4/5
      A strange narrative with strange forebodings and odd ending. Still not sure what it is about, writing's good though.
    • 3/5
      This was meaningful in my early 20s; I don't have any inclination for a reread.
    • 3/5

      The title of this novel by Hermann Hesse refers to the main character, Harry Haller, who is described at first as an individual that is caught between two extremes, surrender to god or asceticism depicted by a man and surrender to physical corruption or lust depicted by the wolf.
      Haller, having been raised in a comfortable bourgeoisie existence, finds himself unable to fully surrender to either side yet hateful of the lukewarm middle state of his origin. He is brought to the verge of suicide by the conflict but feels there must be more to life and determines to
      explore it fully before his end despite the pain.

      Hesse then introduces the notion that all men are more than a single or even dual nature but are instead the combination of a great many souls and that the integration of these parts is the path to unity. He makes the point that the goal is to expand to incorporate all these selves not to collapse these selves into a single entity.

      Through his interaction with the characters of Hermine, Maria, and Pable, Haller explores this idea and Hesse's conception of individuals whom he terms "immortals" which seem to represent the type of life that one should aim for to reach this unity. Such individuals strive for greatness and immortality through self expression even though they are not rewarded in life or even interested in money or fame. The self expression lives on after death so they never truly die. He provides the examples of Mozart and his music.
    • 3/5
      An important book to many, but the dream images were too insubstantial to really grab me.
    • 5/5
      This is a very interesting book about the Steppenwolf, a man who believes himself to be half Harry and half wolf.It is a gripping story filled with unexpected strange incidents and fantastic characters.
    • 3/5
      An example of a great inner conflict, where the civilized side of Harry Haller is in direct clash with the primitive wolf inside him, bringing him at times close to peril. The powerful Hermine reconciles the two sides a bit when she teaches him to dance, but then also deepens his conflict in regard to his relation with Maria and Pablo. A bit suffocating, but a potent drama, with clear influences from Carl Gustave Jung’s vision in action.
    • 5/5
      I'm not sure if Steppenwolf is me in 25 years or me now. I am sure, though, that this book is amazing. For madmen only.
    • 4/5
      I read this book a long time ago, as a teenager, and thought it was the best thing ever. Re-reading it in my 20s, I could see where people felt it was a bit juvenile, but still it really hit the spot back then.
    • 4/5
      The sinister wolf of European legend is the metaphor used by this existential tale with an alienated central character. A good novel for young men who are seeking an identity in the distant, electronic world we now inhabit. My favourite Hesse novel.