Demian
About this book
A young man awakens to selfhood and to a world of possibilities beyond the conventions of his upbringing in Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse’s beloved novel Demian. Emil Sinclair is a quiet boy drawn into a forbidden yet seductive realm of petty crime and defiance. His guide is his precocious, mysterious classmate Max Demian, who provokes in Emil a search for self-discovery and spiritual fulfillment. A brilliant psychological portrait, Demian is given new life in this translation, which together with James Franco’s personal and inspiring foreword will bring a new generation to Hesse’s widely influential coming-of-age novel.
Subjects
- bildungsroman
- bildungsromans
- continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
- fiction
- fiction, coming of age
- fiction, general
- friendship
- friendship -- fiction
- german fiction
- germanic literature
- german language materials
- germany
- germany, fiction
- germany -- social conditions -- 1918-1933
- germany -- social conditions -- 1918-1933 -- fiction
- interpersonal relations
- interpersonal relations -- fiction
- juvenile fiction
- mothers and sons
- portuguese fiction
- psychological fiction
- social conditions
- teenage boys
- translations from german
- translations into english
- translations into portuguese
- young men
- youth