Demian. Gesse G.

Demian is a philosophical novel, gloomy and mystical. It can also be considered autobiographical - Hesse declares this in the preface. A significant work, which had a huge impact on the further work of the writer, and the great Thomas Mann compared this book with the “suffering of the young Werther.”

This is the story of growing up and the formation of a young man, who steps further from the hypocritical norms of public Morality and more clearly discovering for itself the deep, dark "I" - free, not subject to virtuous Pharisees that reigning around. The mysterious friend of Demian helps him in this - the bearer of the "seal of Cain", or the devil, or the mysterious deity, or just a product of the hero’s imagination...