Throughout his career, Hesse was occupied with thoughts about the fate of the world, art and civilization. The writer began working on his main novel, The Bead Game, a couple of years before the Nazis came to power, published it in 1943, the turning point of World War II, and in 1946 received the Nobel Prize for it. In this, according to Thomas Mann's definition, "joyfully mysterious book", written in an atmosphere of universal militarization and barbarism, Hesse asks the main question: how to save the personality and the spiritual principle during the collapse of culture and the general decline of morality?Due to the complexity of construction, the interweaving of many genre forms, the richness of symbolism, terms and concepts from various fields of culture, the novel was not understood and accepted by everyone, but immediately generated heated discussions and became a spiritual guide for entire generations around the world."Steppenwolf is one of the most important novels of the 20th century, first published in 1927. This is both a philosophical parable, and at the same time a deep study of the psychology of a person who is vainly trying to find and find his own Self, constantly balancing at the junction of the animal and the human principle.This is a love story that leads to an unexpected tragic outcome, it is also a political, social novel in which the hero acts as a fierce critic of the existing philistinism.The publication also includes the allegorical story "Journey to the Land of the East".