The hero of the novel is a writer who is out of tune with the surrounding environment. He indulged in an unconscious kingdom all day long and was regarded as an abnormal person by the society, hence the name "wild wolf". Some people compare him to Kafka's shapeshifter and the victim of capitalism. However, "Wolf of the Wilderness" Harry harrell is not equal to Gregory in Metamorphosis. In the unreasonable capitalist society, he expressed a silent resistance. He wanders around, sometimes even a "wolf" who can only eat people, instead of a "beetle" who is only depressed and has no resistance.
At the end of the novel, harrell "turned into any kind of animal" in a fantasy kingdom, killing people at one moment, knocking over the enemy's car at another, and even feeling the pleasure of suicide ... Through the opposition between "wolf" and "humanity" in harrell, the loneliness, hesitation and depression of ordinary intellectuals during the two world wars are reflected in twists and turns.
Hesse's works focus on describing and analyzing his society from the spiritual and psychological aspects. In his view, although the real world is dark and decadent, and the relationship between man and the world is antagonistic, man is not afraid of this world. After painful exploration and tempering, he can find his own spiritual paradise. This subjective feeling and understanding of the real world determines that Hesse's works mainly attack reality and pursue ideals. Hesse's works are often used by modernist writers such as Symbol, so some people call Hesse a new romantic writer. Hesse 1946 won Nobel Prize in Literature.