Demian
The Story of Emil Sinclair’s Youth
Hermann Hesse author W J Strachan translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pushkin Press
Published:29th Feb '24
Should be back in stock very soon
Emil Sinclair is a troubled young outsider. But everything changes when he meets Max Demian, a mysterious and charismatic older student, who reveals the glittering possibilities that lie beyond conventional thinking and ordinary life. Under the intoxicating influence of his new mentor, Emil sets out on a journey of spiritual fulfilment, as he wrestles with the boundaries between illusion and truth, purity and corruption. Teeming with psychological insight, Demian is a profound and enduring exploration of adolescent awakening from Nobel Prize-winner Hermann Hesse.
'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
ISBN: 9781805330349
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
176 pages