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.
Reviews
· Hesse’s style is individual and his view of the world strikingly original
Sunday Telegraph
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
