Demian
Subtitle: the story of Emil Sinclair's youth.
By: Introd. by Thomas Mann. Translated from the German by Michael Roloff and Michael Lebeck.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1965
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 171
Description: This first major novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Hermann Hesse incorporates a theme he returned to again and again in most of his works: the fundamental duality of existence. The youthful protagonist, Emil Sinclair, however, his older friend, Max Demian, manages to both clarify and complicate Sinclair's confusion about life's conflicting values. Recounted in engaging prose, rich in sympathy and imagination, this brilliant exploration of the polarities of human nature has retained its remarkable power as a poignant statement of the terrors and torments of adolescence.