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He learns of a Persian god, Abraxas, who incarnates the universe, including good and evil, light and dark, masculine and feminine. The musician and theologian Pistorius teaches him more about Abraxas—and about himself.

The dying Demian passes on his legacy of enlightenment to the severely wounded Sinclair. Demian is at the same time the story of a youth and the history of the emotional crisis and intellectual evolution of a man around forty. In writing this novel, Hesse balanced the presentation of his own individual experience with the portrayal of universal problems. We respond to this dual effort even today, because, in the issues the novel raises—good versus evil, war and its aftermath—we recognize that our own relative safety is likewise projected against the monstrous deaths of others.

In one of the first sentences of the book, Hesse states his position on personal versus universal experience. Composed under great personal stress, Demian was published in It appeared first in monthly installments from February to April in the literary journal Die Neue Rundschau, then in book form in June of that year.

I had never read or heard of the word. The hour passed without my hearing anything of the lesson. The next lesson began, the last of the morning. It was taken by quite a young assistant master, fresh from the University, to whom we had already taken a liking, because he was young and pretended to no false dignity with us.

This was one of the few school subjects which interested me. But this time my attention wandered. I had mechanically flung open my book, but I did not follow the translation, and remained lost in thought.

For the rest, I had already several times had the experience that what Demian had said to me in the confirmation class was right. If you willed a thing strongly enough, it happened. If during the lesson I was deeply immersed in thought, I need not fear that the master would disturb my peace. Certainly, if you were absentminded or sleepy, then he stood suddenly there; that had already happened to me several times. But if you were really thinking, if you were genuinely sunk in thought, then you were safe.

Demian: A Novel by Hermann Hesse. Copyright Disclaimer: This site does not store any files on its server. We cannot guarantee that Demian By Hermann Hesse book is available. Join over A brilliant psychological portrait of a troubled young man's quest for self-awareness, this coming-of-age novel achieved instant critical and popular acclaim upon its publication.

A landmark in the history of 20th-century literature, it reflects the author's preoccupation with the duality of human nature and the pursuit of spiritual fullfillment. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The main character of this classic novel, Emil Sinclair, is a young boy raised in a bourgeois home, amidst what is described as a Scheinwelt, a play on words that means "world of light" as.

Download or read online Demian written by Hermann Hesse, published by Digireads. Get Demian Books now! First published in under the pseudonym "Emil Sinclair", the narrator of the story. Emil Sinclair is a young boy who was raised in a bourgeois home. He is confused as to what his life is and is going to be.