- Paperback: 176 pages
- Publisher: Harper Perennial (Jun 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060931914
- ISBN-13: 978-0060931919
- Product Dimensions: 20.5 x 13.6 x 1.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,568,694 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A novel by the 1946 Nobel Prize winner for Literature. "Demian" traces the development of Emil from his childhood years to late adolescence. Suffering from bullying, Emil turns to Max Demian, a friend and mentor. He draws Emil away from a normal home life towards acceptance of corruption and evil.
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
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A book about growth,
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This review is from: Demian (Paperback)
Demian, like several other books by Hesse, is a book about the growth of an individual, in this case Emil Sinclair. Emil Sinclair's life is an ordinary one: he is an ordinary adolescent growing up in an ordinary household, encountering ordinary troubles and coming up with ordinary and ineffective solutions to these problems. Into this world enters someone who is not ordinary, who does not live in an ordinary household and who does not seem to have any of the ordinary problems. This someone, Demian, solves Sinclair's inconsequential problems quite easily. He takes Sinclair under his wing and shows him that what distingishes between ordinary and extraordinary is simply thought and action based on a deep rooted understanding of human nature. This knowledge is enough to alleviate many of the troubles which afflict most people, allowing more time for higher pursuits, for growth. Demian guides and helps Sinclair during the early stages of his development. Sinclair's growth is incidental - he takes to Demian because Demian solves his problems. Ultimately he must move away. If he is to continue growing significantly however, there must ultimately be an awareness and a desire for it. Growth must eventually come alone and will only come if there is a strong and persistent hunger for it. Demian is a good teacher, but like most teachers he fails because of his zeal to educate. For higher education to be successful, the student must seek out the teacher. If the teacher has to seek out the student, the student is probably not yet ready to learn. Moreover, the teacher in seeking out a student halts his own growth. In Demian, as in many of his books, Hesse suggests a philosophy which stresses that an essential requirement for mental fulfillment is an awareness of what is required for fulfillment. This awareness in turn leads ultimately to the realization that the road to fulfillment is a lonely one.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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A gripping treatise on life...,
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This review is from: Demian (Peter Owen Modern Classic) (Paperback)
As usual, Hesse - in 'Demian' - has produced a rich and thought-provoking comment on life and the individual's place within it. It's very similar to his other work in that it shares certain themes and views...but this makes it no less enjoyable as a text that is still fresh and relevant in the 21st Century.I agree that the novel (novella?) loses focus towards to end. Indeed, perhaps the main narrative never finds a true focus at all. I felt that several characters in the tale were superfluous and brought little to the book's central 'message'. I was, however, extremely impressed with the sense of impending war that Hesse manages to paint towards the end. In a very small amount of pages, the full sense of a world about to collapse in on itself is exceptionally sharp. It really comes close to portraying how the youth of entire nations must have felt in the face of imminent conflict in Europe. Very compelling - perhaps a little muddled, but rightly judged as a classic.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Buy it!!,
By azalehm@yahoo.com (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Demian (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback)
A beautifully written book. Entering the world of children and their fears and how it can manifest itself into adulthood. From the moment I picked this book up I could not leave it alone until I had reached the last word. A wonderful and understanding author.
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