While visiting an oriental mythologist, the main character of this novel is offended by a Goethe figurine because it is too beautiful, and later dreams of Goethe simultaneously tempting him with a lady's leg and repelling him with a scorpion.
While visiting an oriental mythologist, the main character of this novel is offended by a Goethe figurine because it is too beautiful, and later dreams of Goethe simultaneously tempting him with a lady's leg and repelling him with a scorpion. In this novel, the main character reads that half of his souls have fox, dragon, tiger, ape and bird of paradise in them, in a treatise which is named after him. Venues in this novel include the Odeon and Black Eagle bars, where the protagonist meets an androgynous girl who reminds him of a boyhood friend. A saxophonist in this novel can supposedly speak every language and leads the protagonist to a place where he decides to snipe random car drivers, as part of the war with the machines. The protagonist later finds Pablo amid coitus with his saviour Hermine in the Magic Theater, so naturally he kills her. For 10 points, name this novel about Harry Haller by Hermann Hesse.
While visiting an oriental mythologist, the main character of this novel is offended by a Goethe figurine because it is too beautiful, and later dreams of Goethe simultaneously tempting him with a lady's leg and repelling him with a scorpion.
Der Steppenwolf