The Unhappiness That I Need And Long For . . . Is Of The Kind That Will Let Me Suffer With Eagerness And Die With Lust. That Is The Unhappiness, Or Happiness, That I Am Waiting For.’Alienated From Society, Harry Haller Is The Steppenwolf, Wild, Strange And Shy. His Despair And Desire For Death Draw Him Into An Enchanted, Faust-Like Underworld. Through A Series Of Shadowy Encounters, Romantic, Freakish And Savage By Turn, Haller Begins To Rediscover The Lost Dreams Of His Youth.Adopted By The Sixties Counterculture, Steppenwolfcaptured The Mood Of A Disaffected Generation That Was Beginning To Question Everything.