may find this novel particularly appealing. The opening of "Der Steppenwolf" begins with a foreword by an unnamed editor, who recounts his impressions and observations of Harry Haller, the Steppenwolf, during his tenancy in the editor’s family home. Haller is depicted as an outsider, both admired and pitied, whose life is marked by profound loneliness and self-contempt despite his intelligence and sensitivity. The narrative then shifts to Haller’s own writings, where he describes the monotonous, numbing routine of his days, his aversion to bourgeois comforts, and his yearning for experiences outside ordinary life. Early in Haller's manuscript, the “Tractate of the Steppenwolf” introduces the core metaphor of his existence—a man divided between civilized humanity and wild, wolfish nature—establishing the book’s central psychological conflict. (This is an automatically generated summary.)