I recently read what I wrote actor, director, writer and academic Fernando Fernan Gomez :
" The writer Hermann Hesse, in his novel" Steppenwolf "has several pages as in explains that every human being has within it many possibilities human beings have developed no-no in terms of physical, but in terms of character, in temperament, in the way of behaving, "because they need to develop further the circumstances. In this it resembles the famous "I am myself and my circumstance" of Ortega y Gasset. According to Hesse account in these pages, which to me seem revealing, say, that every man has thirty passibility. Of those thirty chances only in everyday life reflects three, because they are in have been given the circumstances: an employee's office, is married and his wife is cheating on him. That gave rise to three modes of behavior that are already reflected in the physical, how it moves, that voice has, like speech, as he sits, etc. What Hermann Hesse tells us that a man who has been throughout his life a certain way, could have become the opposite even if the circumstance that would have accompanied him on two or three crucial moments of his life, had been another. So he says, for example, a naive boy who has not become anything in life because they all have taken advantage of he could have reached 50 years to be the dictator of a country, if certain circumstances at some point had operated on his character " 1 . As
not remember this thought seems to me very attractive, I rescued from my library the work cited in Hesse, "Steppenwolf " not read from 03.20.1978 (such precision does not depend on me memory, but a written record in respect of the book page.) The advantage we have readers and new veterans is to enjoy those readings that tasted old and perhaps have forgotten.
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) was a German writer, complex psychology, whose novels and stories enjoyed great fame. In my own library I have several titles: " Demian" (1919), " Siddhartha" (1922), a collection of stories, "Trail a dream" and of course " Steppenwolf ( 1927), his most famous, though perhaps not the best, an honor reserved for his latest novel, " The Glass Bead Game" (1943) by which, in large part, was granted in 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Hesse writes "Lobo Steppenwolf "during the interwar years, called by some" happy twenty ", but that many had little happier. A reluctance by then known as the Great War, a war capitalist and non-nationalist, dirty, deadly and nothing heroic, is accompanied by the appearance of the masses as the main subject groups (remember the title of the book of Ortega " The Revolt of the Masses "). The mass man has no personality, because people who constitute the majority imposes its own. This means the shoved the old bourgeois values, elitism, the preeminence of reason over force the logic of force, security, character individualistic. In Europe, Russia, America, the masses, born of war, are made with the power and lead to the birth and rise of the nationalist parties. Even the arts, once reserved for some avant-garde will become so large that one can speak of his popularity. And the same goes for fashion, transport and communications, helped by the reach of many inventions, including radio, photography or music discs.
Understanding these "circumstances" is necessary to understand the Henry Haller, the Steppenwolf, a character from the novel by Hesse.
Henry Haller is a lonely man, and he does not know the family life or social relations. Unable to hold office, subject to discipline, obedience to others, a refugee living in itself, given to intellectual exercises and meditation sternly ordered, apart from the world around him. Although he despises the bourgeois man has pride not, accept some conventions of bourgeois life: living in a nice pension, fictional home, properly dressed, have money in the bank and helps the poor relations .
Inside live or rather there are two "selves": the "man", ie " a world of ideas, feelings, culture, nature and sublimated dominated, while next door is , also within, the "wolf", ie "a shadow world of instincts, of ferocity, cruelty, nature, tough, no sublimated." In his self of man, everything is spiritual, cultural, Sublime, in his ego of Wolf, all that is instinctive, fierce and chaotic. This duplication and internal discord with appeasement period between his two personalities, prevent him from fully loving and being loved ... at least until he meets Hermine.
this contradictory figure "Steppenwolf" allows Hesse explain his famous theory of the 1,000 souls, reminding us of Fernan-Gomez. Every man has, ten, hundreds, a thousand souls. No I is a unit, but a multiform world, a small constellation of stars, a chaos of forms, shades and states. The man, says Hesse, " is an onion a hundred canvases, a tissue composed of many threads ." If, as a body, each man is one, as a soul never.
The meeting with Hermine, became their teacher, shows our "Steppenwolf" new souls, lost opportunities, rights and powers not exercised or developed, appetites, desires, skills, happiness, fun, decomposition of the self in multitude of small souls. As the figures in a game of chess, the pieces of his personality enjoy a new versatility in the game of life .
Worship Book, beautifully written, with a residue of sadness and guilt, not to what extent this novel will be appreciated by new generations today readers. Undoubtedly, the duality between Ts antagonistic ("I spend too , old and sad, in my chest I a lion," as in verse by Antonio Machado), the internal struggle, more or less contained, among acceptance of reality and exploring new possibilities, always has been part of a torn man and I think that in our age, we carry within ourselves, some without knowing it, hidden in the chest, a lone wolf howling and hungry that we strive to fight and sometimes howling mob with the peace of our days and the rest of our nights.
© Manuel Martínez Bargueño
March, 2011
" The writer Hermann Hesse, in his novel" Steppenwolf "has several pages as in explains that every human being has within it many possibilities human beings have developed no-no in terms of physical, but in terms of character, in temperament, in the way of behaving, "because they need to develop further the circumstances. In this it resembles the famous "I am myself and my circumstance" of Ortega y Gasset. According to Hesse account in these pages, which to me seem revealing, say, that every man has thirty passibility. Of those thirty chances only in everyday life reflects three, because they are in have been given the circumstances: an employee's office, is married and his wife is cheating on him. That gave rise to three modes of behavior that are already reflected in the physical, how it moves, that voice has, like speech, as he sits, etc. What Hermann Hesse tells us that a man who has been throughout his life a certain way, could have become the opposite even if the circumstance that would have accompanied him on two or three crucial moments of his life, had been another. So he says, for example, a naive boy who has not become anything in life because they all have taken advantage of he could have reached 50 years to be the dictator of a country, if certain circumstances at some point had operated on his character " 1 . As
not remember this thought seems to me very attractive, I rescued from my library the work cited in Hesse, "Steppenwolf " not read from 03.20.1978 (such precision does not depend on me memory, but a written record in respect of the book page.) The advantage we have readers and new veterans is to enjoy those readings that tasted old and perhaps have forgotten.
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) was a German writer, complex psychology, whose novels and stories enjoyed great fame. In my own library I have several titles: " Demian" (1919), " Siddhartha" (1922), a collection of stories, "Trail a dream" and of course " Steppenwolf ( 1927), his most famous, though perhaps not the best, an honor reserved for his latest novel, " The Glass Bead Game" (1943) by which, in large part, was granted in 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature. Hesse writes "Lobo Steppenwolf "during the interwar years, called by some" happy twenty ", but that many had little happier. A reluctance by then known as the Great War, a war capitalist and non-nationalist, dirty, deadly and nothing heroic, is accompanied by the appearance of the masses as the main subject groups (remember the title of the book of Ortega " The Revolt of the Masses "). The mass man has no personality, because people who constitute the majority imposes its own. This means the shoved the old bourgeois values, elitism, the preeminence of reason over force the logic of force, security, character individualistic. In Europe, Russia, America, the masses, born of war, are made with the power and lead to the birth and rise of the nationalist parties. Even the arts, once reserved for some avant-garde will become so large that one can speak of his popularity. And the same goes for fashion, transport and communications, helped by the reach of many inventions, including radio, photography or music discs.
Understanding these "circumstances" is necessary to understand the Henry Haller, the Steppenwolf, a character from the novel by Hesse.
Henry Haller is a lonely man, and he does not know the family life or social relations. Unable to hold office, subject to discipline, obedience to others, a refugee living in itself, given to intellectual exercises and meditation sternly ordered, apart from the world around him. Although he despises the bourgeois man has pride not, accept some conventions of bourgeois life: living in a nice pension, fictional home, properly dressed, have money in the bank and helps the poor relations .
Inside live or rather there are two "selves": the "man", ie " a world of ideas, feelings, culture, nature and sublimated dominated, while next door is , also within, the "wolf", ie "a shadow world of instincts, of ferocity, cruelty, nature, tough, no sublimated." In his self of man, everything is spiritual, cultural, Sublime, in his ego of Wolf, all that is instinctive, fierce and chaotic. This duplication and internal discord with appeasement period between his two personalities, prevent him from fully loving and being loved ... at least until he meets Hermine.
this contradictory figure "Steppenwolf" allows Hesse explain his famous theory of the 1,000 souls, reminding us of Fernan-Gomez. Every man has, ten, hundreds, a thousand souls. No I is a unit, but a multiform world, a small constellation of stars, a chaos of forms, shades and states. The man, says Hesse, " is an onion a hundred canvases, a tissue composed of many threads ." If, as a body, each man is one, as a soul never.
The meeting with Hermine, became their teacher, shows our "Steppenwolf" new souls, lost opportunities, rights and powers not exercised or developed, appetites, desires, skills, happiness, fun, decomposition of the self in multitude of small souls. As the figures in a game of chess, the pieces of his personality enjoy a new versatility in the game of life .
Worship Book, beautifully written, with a residue of sadness and guilt, not to what extent this novel will be appreciated by new generations today readers. Undoubtedly, the duality between Ts antagonistic ("I spend too , old and sad, in my chest I a lion," as in verse by Antonio Machado), the internal struggle, more or less contained, among acceptance of reality and exploring new possibilities, always has been part of a torn man and I think that in our age, we carry within ourselves, some without knowing it, hidden in the chest, a lone wolf howling and hungry that we strive to fight and sometimes howling mob with the peace of our days and the rest of our nights.
© Manuel Martínez Bargueño
March, 2011
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NOTES
1. Conversations with Fernando Fernan-Gomez. Enrique Brasó. Espasa Calpe SA, 2002, pp. 181-2
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