The protagonist of this novel ridicules an engraving of Goethe he sees on the wall of an old colleague's home after they defame an anti-war column he had written.  After leaving he meets a girl who mocks his love of Mozart due to his inability to dance and subsequently takes him to a tavern, where he meets then sleeps with Maria.  He also meets the saxophonist Pablo, who, in a dream at the novel's end, pockets the shrunken corpse of Hermine.  The novel begins with the protagonist in the aunt's boarding house, and after he vacates her stepson finds his memoir.  Through 
The protagonist of this novel ridicules an engraving of Goethe he sees on the wall of an old colleague's home after they defame an anti-war column he had written.  After leaving he meets a girl who mocks his love of Mozart due to his inability to dance and subsequently takes him to a tavern, where he meets then sleeps with Maria.  He also meets the saxophonist Pablo, who, in a dream at the novel's end, pockets the shrunken corpse of Hermine.  The novel begins with the protagonist in the aunt's boarding house, and after he vacates her stepson finds his memoir.  Through it he finds out that the protagonist gave himself the title appellation after patronizing a magic show only for madmen, which awakened in him his animal instincts.  FTP name this novel about Harry Haller by Hermann Hesse.
The protagonist of this novel ridicules an engraving of Goethe he sees on the wall of an old colleague's home after they defame an anti-war column he had written.  
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