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Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
Hermann Hesse (Author); Thomas Mann (Introduction by); Michael Rolodd & Michael Lebeck (Translated from the German by)
Language: English
Published by Bantam Books, Toronto, ON, Canada, New York & London 1978
- Softcover
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 27th Printing: October 1978. 141 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Slightly creased and skewed spine. Light foxing on page edges, not affecting text.
Demian; The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
Hesse, Hermann; Introduction by Thomas Mann translated by Michael Roloff and Michael Lebeck
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1965. 171 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Board…s have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The main character of this classic novel, Emil Sinclair, is a young boy raised in a bourgeois home, amidst what is described as a Scheinwelt, a play on words that means "world of light" as well as "world of illusion". Emil's entire existence can be summarized as a struggle between two worlds: the show world of illusion (related to the Hindu concept of maya) and the real world, the world of spiritual truth. In the course of the novel, accompanied and prompted by his mysterious classmate 'Max Demian', he detaches from and revolts against the superficial ideals of the world of appearances and eventually awakens into a realization of self. The novel refers to the idea of Gnosticism, particularly the god Abraxas, showing the influence of Carl Jung's psychology. According to Hesse, the novel is a story of Jungian individuation, the process of opening up to one's unconsciousness.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 171 pages.
