Demian
Subtitle: the story of Emil Sinclair's youth
By: by Hermann Hesse ; introduction by Thomas Mann ; translated from the German by Michael Roloff and Michael Lebeck
Series: A Bantam modern classic -- NY4054; Bantam modern classics -- NY4054.
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1968
Place of publication: Toronto; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: German fiction; Translations into English
Description: Hesse portrays the turmoil of Emil Sinclair, a docile young man who is drawn by his schoolmates into a secret and dangerous world of petty crime and revolt against convention. 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, recognizes that life consists of opposing forces; 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 psychological portrait of a troubled young man's exploration of the polarities of human nature has retained its remarkable power as a poignant statement of terrors and torments of adolescence. Hesse's classic tells of the turmoil of Emil Sinclair, a docile young man who is drawn by his schoolmates into a secret and dangerous world of petty crime and revolt against convention.
Notes: Reprint of the 1965 ed. published by Harper & Row, New York.

7th printing.