by Hermann Hesse · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420633398
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«Demian» is the novel by Hermann Hesse, published by Alianza in paperback (177 pages, in Spanish).
Emil Sinclair leaves behind the luminous world of his childhood after telling a lie. The encounter with the enigmatic Max Demian confronts him with questions about good and evil, identity and destiny. The novel, influenced by Gnosticism and psychoanalysis, criticizes bourgeois society and defends the search for an authentic life.
1998 edition from the El Libro de Bolsillo collection, Biblioteca Hesse, with a translation by Genoveva Dieterich. The work originally appeared in 1919 under the pseudonym Emil Sinclair.
Aimed at readers of twentieth-century European classics and those who enjoy novels of formation and personal quest.
Hermann Karl Hesse was a German-Swiss poet and novelist, and winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. His interest in Eastern religious, spiritual, and philosophical traditions, combined with his involvement with Jungian analysis, helped shape his literary work. His best-known novels include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, Narcissus and Goldmund, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge, and spirituality.
