Demian
the story of Emil Sinclair's youth.
by Hermann Hesse, Thomas Wayne, and Overstreet Press
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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.
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Teenage boys, Translations into English, Bildungsromans, Fiction, German fiction, Germany, Bildungsroman, Social conditions, Translations into Portuguese, Portuguese fiction, Translations from German, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Young men, German language materials, Fiction, coming of age, Germany, fiction, Youth, Fiction, general, Friendship -- Fiction, Interpersonal relations -- Fiction, Friendship, Interpersonal relations, Germany -- Social conditions -- 1918-1933 -- Fiction, Germany -- Social conditions -- 1918-1933, Germanic literature, Psychological fiction, Mothers and sonsPlaces
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Demian
2008, Editores Mexicanos Unidos
Paperback
in Spanish
- 1a ed., 1a reimp.
9681501233 9789681501235
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Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
January 1993, Harpercollins
Paperback
in English
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Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
September 1, 1981, Bantam
Mass Market Paperback
in English
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Demian: die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
1978, Suhrkamp Verlag, Suhrkamp
in German
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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.
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