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Demian

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ISBN: 9780060931919
author: Hermann Hesse
translator: Michael Roloff / Michael Lebeck
publishing house: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
publication date: 2009 -9
language: English
binding: Paperback
price: USD 13.99
number of pages: 176

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the story of Emil Sinclair's youth

Hermann Hesse    translator: Michael Roloff / Michael Lebeck

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Emil Sinclair is a young boy raised in a bourgeois home, amidst what is described as a Scheinwelt, a play on words that means "world of light" as well as "world of illusion". Emil's entire existence can be summarized as a struggle between two worlds: the show world of illusion (related to the Hindu concept of maya) and the real world, the world of spiritual truth. In the course of the novel, accompanied and prompted by his mysterious classmate 'Max Demian', he detaches from and revolts against the superficial ideals of the world of appearances and eventually awakens into a realization of self.

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