Demian

Demian
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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 well as "world of illusion". Emil's entire existence can be summarized as a struggle between two worlds: the show world of illusion (related to the Hindu concept of maya) and the real world, the world of spiritual truth. In the course of the novel, accompanied and prompted by his mysterious classmate 'Max Demian', he detaches from and revolts against the superficial ideals of the world of appearances and eventually awakens into a realization of self. The novel refers to the idea of Gnosticism, particularly the god Abraxas, showing the influence of Carl Jung's psychology. According to Hesse, the novel is a story of Jungian individuation, the process of opening up to one's unconsciousness.


Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) was born in Germany and later became a citizen of Switzerland. As a Western man profoundly affected by the mysticism of Eastern thought, he wrote many novels, stories, and essays that bear a vital spiritual force that has captured the imagination and loyalty of many generations of readers. In 1946, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for The Glass Be...

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  • lyyy
    2012-07-24
    all i really wanted was to try and live the life that was so spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?Only the thoughts that we live out have any value
  • 陆支羽
    2020-05-31
    是,人必须找到他的梦。之后,路就不再艰难。但梦是不会恒久的,所有的梦都会被新的梦取代。人不可能抓住任何一个梦。
  • 熊仔面
    2012-09-08
    聪明话没有任何价值,只能让人远离自己的内心。而远离自己是种罪过。人必须像乌龟一样,能完全蜷进自己的内心世界。
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