TY - BOOK AU - Hesse,Hermann TI - Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend AV - PT PY - 2013/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Bildungsromans KW - Young men -- Germany -- Fiction KW - Germany -- Social conditions -- 1918-1933 -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demian; Release date is 2013-01-24; Produced by Jens Sadowski; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend" by Hermann Hesse is a bildungsroman first published in 1919. Young Emil Sinclair lives trapped between two worlds: a sheltered middle-class illusion and a darker spiritual truth. When he meets the enigmatic Demian, everything changes. Demian reinterprets biblical stories and challenges conventional morality, shaking Sinclair's understanding of good and evil. Through encounters with mysterious mentors and symbols like the Gnostic god Abraxas, Sinclair embarks on a psychological journey toward self-discovery, ultimately learning he must abandon all guides to find his own path. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41907 ER -