Everybody knows who is Herman Hesse, perhaps the classic author best known and read by young people: everyone has heard or at least de Siddhartha Steppenwolf, but perhaps a few Demian know.
Emil Sinclair is the narrator and the novel's protagonist, a boy who, in the most critical moment of its growth, has to choose between good and evil, embodied symbolically by two peers . The young man wants to lead an exemplary life on the model of his parents, but feels strongly inclined toward evil. Almost torn between two opposing worlds and present together in his soul, will become a tool in the hands of the bully Kromer, will not arrive until a new classmate, Demian, which will lead to knowledge of an unexplored and mysterious side of life. It is the story of a difficult search of maturation Emil that can deliver real social conventions to find him / find, finally, his own individuality, in a superior and perfect harmony with nature. It is a symbolic novel that carries a particular fascination among the young. A story that follows certainly autobiographical in many places the difficult and troubled adolescence of Hesse, above all, "Demian" is the story of a boy and an eternal search for something that will turn into a confused and controversial way to himself.
Emil Sinclair is the narrator and the novel's protagonist, a boy who, in the most critical moment of its growth, has to choose between good and evil, embodied symbolically by two peers . The young man wants to lead an exemplary life on the model of his parents, but feels strongly inclined toward evil. Almost torn between two opposing worlds and present together in his soul, will become a tool in the hands of the bully Kromer, will not arrive until a new classmate, Demian, which will lead to knowledge of an unexplored and mysterious side of life. It is the story of a difficult search of maturation Emil that can deliver real social conventions to find him / find, finally, his own individuality, in a superior and perfect harmony with nature. It is a symbolic novel that carries a particular fascination among the young. A story that follows certainly autobiographical in many places the difficult and troubled adolescence of Hesse, above all, "Demian" is the story of a boy and an eternal search for something that will turn into a confused and controversial way to himself.
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