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Demian

Hermann Hesse

  • 184 pages · about 3 hours
  • First published 1919
  • 176 editions
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1 About this book

A young man awakens to selfhood and to a world of possibilities beyond the conventions of his upbringing in Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse’s beloved novel Demian. Emil Sinclair is a quiet boy drawn into a forbidden yet seductive realm of petty crime and defiance.

His guide is his precocious, mysterious classmate Max Demian, who provokes in Emil a search for self-discovery and spiritual fulfillment. A brilliant psychological portrait, Demian is given new life in this translation, which together with James Franco’s personal and inspiring foreword will bring a new generation to Hesse’s widely influential coming-of-age novel.

Good for readers who want: a coming-of-age story and friendship.

  • Bildungsromans
  • Coming of age
  • Friendship
  • Psychological fiction
  • Teenage boys
  • Social conditions
  • Portuguese fiction
  • Young men

2 About Hermann Hesse

1877–1962

Hermann Karl Hesse (German: ; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet and novelist, and winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. His interest in Eastern religious, spiritual, and philosophical traditions, combined with his involvement with Jungian analysis, helped shape his literary work.

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