Exploring the divided self

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A survey of the critical literature analyzing Hesse's Steppenwolf , a work which has fallen and risen and fallen again in the critics' and public's imagination. Richards (Germany, State U. of New York) traces the history of this critical writing from the German dissertations of the 1950s, through the boom years of the 1960s and 1970s, and into the waning consolidation and comparative work of the present. In the course of the study, Hesse's work is illuminated by the close psychoanalytical, biographical, and new critical criticism which embraced the author's careful craftmanship, use of symbols, archetypes, and dedication to self-discovery. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.