Demian, 9781805330349
Paperback
A young man’s dark journey: self-discovery through friendship and inner turmoil.

Demian

The Story of Emil Sinclair’s Youth

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  • Paperback

    176 pages

  • Release Date

    5 August 2024

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Summary

Emil Sinclair is tormented by a constant battle between light and dark, purity and corruption, ignorance and knowledge. As a restless young man, he struggles to locate a path towards acceptance and serenity. Only under the friendship and guidance of the charismatic, otherworldly Max Demian does he discover an alternative way to think, and to live. Demian transforms a young man’s coming-of-age story into a profoundly moving narrative of internal conflict and self-realization.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781805330349
ISBN-10:1805330349
Author:Hermann Hesse, W.J. Strachan
Publisher:Pushkin Press
Imprint:Pushkin Press Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:176
Release Date:5 August 2024
Weight:156g
Dimensions:20mm x 197mm x 130mm
Series:Pushkin Press Classics
What They're Saying

Critics Review

‘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 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

About The Author

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) was born in Wurttemberg, Germany. He resented his pious and repressive upbringing, and was determined to be “a writer or nothing else”. His writing was greatly influenced by his travels to Asia and through his friendship with psychoanalyst Carl Jung. In 1946 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for The Glass Bead Game.

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