Hermann Hesse - Demian (Penguin Classics)

Hermann Hesse - Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair’s Youth (Penguin Classics, 2013). Translated by Damion Searls, with an Introduction by Ralph Freedman and Foreword by James Franco.

ISBN: 978-0143106784 | 176 pages | ePUB + MOBI


DEMIAN (1919) is the beloved and influential coming-of-age novel by Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) in a powerful new translation by Damion Searls and -- for those who care -- with a personal foreword and cover art by James Franco.

In the novel, a young man, Emil Sinclair, awakens to selfhood and to a world of possibilities beyond the conventions of his upbringing. 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.