Alienation of a person who lives "not like everyone else", the search for one's "I" where it is impossible to find this "I", psychoanalysis, Freud and Jung, phantasmagoria, erotica and jazz, split personality - all this is "Steppe Wolf" , a novel by the prominent German-Swiss writer and Nobel Prize laureate Hermann Hesse (1877–1962). Gary Galer - the main character of the novel - calls himself a "steppe wolf who got lost in the entrails of civilization." He is a lonely writer who is not at all adapted to life and therefore thinks about leaving this life. But several unusual events force him to reconsider his views...