Demian - Softcover

Hesse, Herman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1492932671 ISBN 13: 9781492932673

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

A brilliant psychological portrait of a troubled young man's quest for self-awareness, this coming-of-age novel achieved instant critical and popular acclaim upon its 1919 publication. A landmark in the history of 20th-century literature, it reflects the author's preoccupation with the duality of human nature and the pursuit of spiritual fullfillment.

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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 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)

From the Back Cover

'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

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1492932671
• ISBN 13: 9781492932673
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 116