Treatise on the Steppenwolf

Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse’s most famous novel, portrays a man who is at once irrevocably cut off from and inextricably dependent on society. In the “Treatise on the Steppenwolf,” Hesse digresses from the plot of the novel to analyze his protagonist and, in so doing, comments brilliantly on the predicament of modern man.

Jaroslav Bradac, a gifted Czech artist, has captured in forty-five magnificent paintings the essence of Hesse’s work. In this book are reproduced his paintings and the full text of the “Treatise on the Steppenwolf.”

Mr. Bradac created and directed the animated version of the “Treatise” in the film of Steppenwolf.