He pays the "small price" of his mind to enter a hall of mirrors behind an entrance labeled "for madmen only."
In a book about this character from the work of literature he's in, the bourgeois is defined as a search for moderation between extremes like profligacy and asceticism. This character goes home from a bar with hopes of learning the foxtrot, dissuading him from killing himself on his 50th birthday. He sees his favorite of the immortals, Mozart, with bourgeois eyes according to a treatise about himself given to him on the street. At the Black Eagle cafe, this character guesses the name of a woman who bears a (*) resemblance to a childhood friend. He pays the "small price" of his mind to enter a hall of mirrors behind an entrance labeled "for madmen only." He stabs Hermine after she bangs the saxophonist Pablo in the Magic Theater. For 10 points, Harry Haller is the name of what dual-natured title character of a Herman Hesse novel?
In a book about this character from the work of literature he's in, the bourgeois is defined as a search for moderation between extremes like profligacy and asceticism.
The Steppenwolf [or Der Steppenwolf; accept "Treatise on the Steppenwolf"; accept Harry or Haller until they are read] 