Hermann Hesse - Demian (book)

demian is one of hermann hesse's most beautiful and interesting novels. the story of the youth of emil sinclair is a novel that tells in first person the passage from childhood to maturity of this character by the german writer hermann hesse. emil sinclair is a boy who has lived his entire life in what he calls the scheinwelt (dream world or world of light), but a lie leads him to expand his visions of the world and meet an enigmatic character named max demian who will take him along the paths of self-reasoning, destroying materialist paradigms that previously surrounded him.