Page 131 "...Harry Haller's attic room in Steppenwolf"

Clockwise from top left: Max von Sydow as Harry Haller in the film "Steppenwolf";
the movie poster for "Steppenwolf"; the nobel-prize-winning novelist Hermann Hesse.




From page 131 of the book:  "...There were scattered sheaves of paper and a glass with the dried residue of inexpensive brandy or bourbon on the bot-tom. I thought of Harry Haller's attic room in Steppenwolf. Here was a retreat and a torture chamber in one."