Demian: The story of Emil Sinclair's youth / Hermann Hesse; translated by Damion Searls; foreword by James Franco; introduction by Ralph Freedman.
By: Hesse, Hermann
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Contributor(s): Searls, Damion [translator] | Franco, James | Freedman, Ralph.
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BookPlace of publication: New YorkPublisher: Penguin BooksDate of publication: 2013Description: xxxi, 135 pages: 20 cm.ISBN: 9780143106784.Subject(s): Adolescence -- Fiction | Young men -- Germany -- Fiction | Germany -- Social conditions -- 1918-1933 -- FictionDDC classification: 833.912 H587 2013 Summary: 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 masterpiece of youthful rebellion.
Emil Sinclair is a quiet boy drawn into a forbidden yet seductive realm of petty crime and defiance. His guide is his precocious, mysterious classmate Max Demian, who provokes in Emil a search for self-discovery and spiritual fulfillment.
A brilliant psychological portrait, Demian is given new life in this powerful translation, which together with James Franco's personal and inspiring foreword will bring a new generation to Hesse's widely influential coming-of-age novel.
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Includes foreword and introduction.
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 masterpiece of youthful rebellion.
Emil Sinclair is a quiet boy drawn into a forbidden yet seductive realm of petty crime and defiance. His guide is his precocious, mysterious classmate Max Demian, who provokes in Emil a search for self-discovery and spiritual fulfillment.
A brilliant psychological portrait, Demian is given new life in this powerful translation, which together with James Franco's personal and inspiring foreword will bring a new generation to Hesse's widely influential coming-of-age novel.
(From the back cover)
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