“Demian” is a philosophical novel, gloomy and mystical. It can also be considered autobiographical – Hesse declares this in the preface. A landmark work, which had a huge impact on the future work of the writer, and the great Thomas Mann compared this book with the “suffering of the young Werther.”
This is the story of growing up and the formation of a young man, who steps further step by step from hypocritical norms of social morality and more clearly reveals for himself the deep, dark “I” – free, not subject to virtuous Farisanism around the reigning around. In this, the mysterious friend Demian helps him – the carrier of the “seal of Cain”, either the devil, or the mysterious deity, or just a product of the hero’s imagination …
Author
Hesse Herman
Translator
APT Solomon Konstantinovich
Publisher
AST, 2022
Series
Exclusive classics
16+
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