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Demien: The Story Of Emil Sinclair's Youth
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About the author
Hermann Hesse
1,798 books19.6k followersMany works, including
Siddhartha
(1922) and
Steppenwolf
(1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life; he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946.
Other best-known works of this poet, novelist, and painter include The Glass Bead Game , which, also known as Magister Ludi, explore a search of an individual for spirituality outside society.
In his time, Hesse was a popular and influential author in the German-speaking world; worldwide fame only came later. Young Germans desiring a different and more "natural" way of life at the time of great economic and technological progress in the country, received enthusiastically Peter Camenzind , first great novel of Hesse.
Throughout Germany, people named many schools. In 1964, people founded the Calwer Hermann-Hesse-Preis, awarded biennially, alternately to a German-language literary journal or to the translator of work of Hesse to a foreign language. The city of Karlsruhe, Germany, also associates a Hermann Hesse prize.
Other best-known works of this poet, novelist, and painter include The Glass Bead Game , which, also known as Magister Ludi, explore a search of an individual for spirituality outside society.
In his time, Hesse was a popular and influential author in the German-speaking world; worldwide fame only came later. Young Germans desiring a different and more "natural" way of life at the time of great economic and technological progress in the country, received enthusiastically Peter Camenzind , first great novel of Hesse.
Throughout Germany, people named many schools. In 1964, people founded the Calwer Hermann-Hesse-Preis, awarded biennially, alternately to a German-language literary journal or to the translator of work of Hesse to a foreign language. The city of Karlsruhe, Germany, also associates a Hermann Hesse prize.
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November 2, 2025
The book is about becoming a unique person (individualization), a person's spiritual growth. There is no greater spiritual life than forming your own personality🫠 The writer wanted to show the pain that comes with knowing yourself and the human desire for perfection, which is like looking for a lost paradise.
"The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world"🍷
It was like "Steppenwolf" but still very interesting ⛓️💥
"The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world"🍷
It was like "Steppenwolf" but still very interesting ⛓️💥
January 11, 2026
Pappa rekommenderade denna till mig.
Så mycket att säga jag vet inte var jag ska börja
Lärde mig allt och ingenting. Hade så många aha-moments och nya insikter. En bok man jag vill läsa om för att förstå mer.
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Så mycket att säga jag vet inte var jag ska börja
Lärde mig allt och ingenting. Hade så många aha-moments och nya insikter. En bok man jag vill läsa om för att förstå mer.
LÄS DENNA BOK NU
November 11, 2025
It was good but not great. Classic hesse themes of self discovery and finding purpose but just not done quite as well as in other books.
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