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Demian is a coming-of-age story that follows a young boy's maturation as he grapples with good and evil, lightness and darkness, and forges alternatives to the ever-present corruption and suffering that he sees all around him. Crucial to this development are his relationships with a series of older mentors, of who the titular Demian is the most charismatic, otherworldly and ultimately influential.
Many have noted the influence of Jungian psychology upon this novel and it is fascinating to see Herman Hesse's interests in the self, existence and free will play out through through the lens of early twentieth-century Europe; Christian imagery and themes are ever-present, as is the shadow of the First World War.
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Hesse is not a traditional teller of tales but a novelist of ideas and a moralist of a high order...The autobiographical undercurrent gives Demian an Existentialist intensity and a depth of understanding that are rare in contemporary fiction. (Saturday Review)
Beautifully written, it has a seriousness as compelling as as that of The Waste Land . . . the work of a major writer (Observer)
One can neither date nor doubt the sincerity of the hero s search for satisfaction or the quality of the spirit that lies behind it (Times Literary Supplement)
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Beautifully written, it has a seriousness as compelling as as that of The Waste Land . . . the work of a major writer (Observer)
One can neither date nor doubt the sincerity of the hero s search for satisfaction or the quality of the spirit that lies behind it (Times Literary Supplement)
'Nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to follow the path that leads to himself'
Emil grows up the creature of two worlds: the safe, clean, respectable world of parents and school, and another world - a place of danger and mystery, servants' gossip and ghost stories, the dark currents that run under the surface. As he struggles between light and darkness, only the guidance of his friend and mentor Max Demian can lead him on a journey towards self-realization, in Hesse's fable of adolescent awakening and spiritual enlightenment.
'Beautifully written, it has a seriousness as compelling as that of The Waste Land' Observer
'Rich and strange' New York Review of Books
'Hermann Hesse is the poet of the interior journey' Timothy Leary
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- Publication date2017
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