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ISBNs | 978-5-17-134996-7 |
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The weight | 0,332 kg |
Size | 135 × 210 mm |
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Demian is a philosophical novel, dark and mystical. It can also be considered autobiographical - Hesse states this in the preface. A landmark work that had a huge impact on the further work of the writer, and the great Thomas Mann compared this book with The Suffering of Young Werther. This is the story of the growing up and formation of a young man who departs from the hypocritical norms of public morality and discovers a deep, dark "I" that is not subject to the virtuous hypocrisy reigning around. In this he is helped by the mysterious friend Demian, the bearer of the "seal of Cain", either the devil, or the mysterious deity, or just a product of the hero's imagination ... The novel "Gertrude" refers to the early period of Hermann Hesse's work. The story, which has been repeatedly called the artistic embodiment of the motifs of Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, is dedicated to the drama of a young composer forced to choose between "reasonable" and "spontaneous" beginnings in his work. The real details of Hesse's life and the features characteristic of himself, "donated" to various characters, give the book a special, deep meaning. What is art? Self-denial - or spiritual permissiveness? Why is a man of art doomed to eternal loneliness? Each of the heroes of Hesse's novel answers these questions in his own way...