"Steppenwolf" is a work written by the famous German writer Hermann Hesse in 1927 and is very popular among Western youth.

The protagonist of the novel is a writer who is incompatible with the surrounding environment. He is immersed in an unconscious kingdom of self and unconsciousness all day long. He is regarded as an abnormal person by the society, so he is named " Steppenwolf”. Some have compared him to Kafka's shape-shifters, victims of capitalism. However, "Steppenwolf" Harry Harrell is not equal to Gregor in "The Metamorphosis". He expressed a silent resistance in the unreasonable capitalist society. He wandered around and sometimes even A "wolf" that can eat people, not a "beetle" that is just depressed and has no ability to resist.

At the end of the novel, Harrell "transforms into any animal" in a fantasy realm, where he sometimes commits murder, sometimes shoots over his enemy's car, and sometimes feels like committing suicide. The fun... through the opposition between "wolf nature" and "humanity" in Harrar, it tortuously reflects the loneliness, hesitation and depression of ordinary intellectuals during the two world wars.

Hesse's works focus on describing and analyzing the society in which he lives from the spiritual and psychological realm. In his view, although the real world is dark and decadent, and although the relationship between people and the world is antagonistic, people are not afraid of this world. People can find their own spiritual paradise after painful exploration and tempering. This subjective feeling and understanding of the real world determines that most of Hesse's works focus on criticizing reality and pursuing ideals. Hesse's works also often use symbols and other techniques commonly used by modern writers, so some people call Hesse a neo-romantic writer. Hesse won the 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature.