I'm not going to lie about this book, it's too complex for my limited understanding, reading Steppenwolf felt like a lasting acid trip, but I'll also talk about what little I understood...
Harry Haller is a man in his 50s who was at a difficult time in his life, he was a complex person, suicidal, alcoholic, admirer of Goethe and other classical musicians like Chopin, Mozart and others, he is against bourgeois society but controversially benefited by its comfort, it defines itself between two parts that for the most part conflict with each other: the man and the wolf, one supposedly representing spirituality and the other impulsiveness.
Walking around the city he finds a pamphlet in which his life from an external perspective was written in a very detailed way, disagreeing with the wolf-man bipolar vision saying that the soul is composed of a multitude of small consciences that manifest themselves many times and he does not accept this vision continuing until the end with the same bipolar vision, it is also told about his suicidal thoughts and how he knew he would commit one day and that he could become immortal by knowing it.
The other day after arguing with a reactionary professor he knew about the aesthetic falsity of the Goethe bust and the nationalism it replaced, a tempestuous and depressed Harry went to a club called the Black Eagle where he meets Hermine and talks with her, with a time she begins to be a mother-like figure to him and a source of change for Harry in that she makes him accept "indeep" things like dancing, drugs, modern music and sex through his lover Maria.
Harry after attending the masquerade ball goes to the invitation of saxophonist Pablo to a Magic Theater and in it is reflected various parts of his life, and in the end after a long reflection he fulfills the promise made by the victim and kills Hermine while she was with Pablo. in bed and ends the book that way. I cannot deny that it was not a strange and difficult read, but it had its really good moments of reflection and narrative.