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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.
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Grave, earnest, prestige and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Hermann Hesse
- First published
- 1919
- Pages
- 184
- Publisher
- Owen, H. Holt, Picador
- Editions
- 176
- Language
- cat, Korean, Portuguese, epo
- ISBN
- 9788420611389
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“I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.”
Hermann Karl Hesse -pseudonym: Emil Sinclair- (* 2. Juli 1877 in Calw; † 9. August 1962 in Montagnola, Schweiz), war ein deutsch-schweizerischer Schriftsteller, Dichter und Maler. Bekanntheit erlangte er mit Prosawerken wie *Siddhartha, Demian, Der Steppenwolf* sowie auch *Narziß und Goldmund* und mit seinen Gedichten (z. B. *Stufen).* 1946 wurde ihm der Nobelpreis für Literatur und 1954 der Orden Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste verliehen. ---------- Hermann Karl Hesse (2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include *Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha,* and *The Glass Bead Game,* each of which explores an individual's searc
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